Katie Couric Calls Out CBS for Hiring Two Men to Replace Norah O’Donnell as ‘Evening News’ Host: ‘Disappointing…Odd and More Than a Little Out of Touch’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Katie Couric wrote a guest essay for The New York Times in which she called out CBS for replacing Norah O’Donnell as the host of “CBS Evening News” with two men, Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson.
Couric hosted “CBS Evening News” herself for five years from 2006 to 2011. Her issue is not with the new anchors themselves, as she’s a fan of both DuBois and Dickerson, but with their hiring now making the evening news on broadcast television a male-dominated space as Lester Holt already hosts “NBC Nightly News” and David Muir helms “ABC World News Tonight.” “It was more than a little disappointing to read that Ms.
O’Donnell would be replaced by two men, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois,” Couric writes. “Don’t get me wrong: I know, like and respect these two journalists.
But soon, on the big three networks, there will be four male anchors. Yes, the talented Margaret Brennan will be contributing stories from the Washington bureau for CBS, but the two people who will be greeting Americans watching the CBS evening newscast will be men.” “More important, the three people behind the scenes, making most of the editorial decisions, will be three white men: Bill Owens, Guy Campanile and Jerry Cipriano,” she added about the producers in charge behind the scenes.
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