Katie Couric Says That It Is “More Than A Little Disappointing” That CBS News Chose Two Males To Succeed Norah O’Donnell As Anchor
deadline.comKatie Couric, the former anchor of CBS Evening News, weighed in on the network’s recent overhaul of the nightly broadcast, calling it “more than a little disappointing” that Norah O’Donnell’s successors will be two male anchors.
The network recently announced that John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois would be anchoring CBS Evening News after O’Donnell’s steps down following the November election.
Couric wrote in an op ed in The New York Times, “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.” As Couric noted, after the change, the three broadcast networks’ evening newscasts all will be anchored by men, with Lester Holt at NBC and David Muir at ABC.
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