![]() "One of the sort of the gating parameters of our company was that we let Katie be Katie - let her cover the story she wants to cover, go where she wants to go," Molner says. With KCM, Couric was able to find the intersection between continuing to hunt down stories that interested her and felt important while also finding a way to partner with brands that make sense organically to help tell and explore those stories. "But it was clear during the decades of my career that there was a real sea of change happening and I wanted to ride that wave (to continue the water analogy) and not be left behind." I think if things hadn't changed, I probably would still be in traditional media," she explains. "As the media landscape evolved, I think I wanted to evolve along with it. In 2018, Couric shifted gears when she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM) alongside her husband John Molner, a media company that seeks to create inspiring, purpose-driven content by collaborating with brands to help elevate people, voices and untold stories across a variety of mediums, including a newsletter, podcast and short-form digitals. Most recently, she reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list with her memoir Going There. It need not be stated that the world of broadcast media is synonymous with Couric's name - from her longstanding years cohosting the Today Show to being the first solo female anchor of a major news network's evening program at CBS, if there's a story or someone worth talking to, chances are Couric has had the opportunity to do so. But I also understand why that that has emerged because we live in a very partisan country and people I think want their own views often reflected back at them - a friend of mine calls that affirmation instead of information." ![]() "And I think primetime particularly relies much more on commentary, which is something I've never felt really that comfortable in. "I pretty much did everything I could in network news, and kind of hosting an hour of the latest headlines - even though I think people are doing a great job at that, I think clearly it's a critically important job, but that just didn't appeal to me that much, especially as cable has gotten more partisan in recent years," Couric tells Entrepreneur. This is precisely what Couric has done with her career. Couric was diagnosed with Stage 1A breast cancer which, she wrote, hadn’t spread to the lymph nodes.The phone that's supposed to be recording the interview for some reason won't work on my end while echoing sounds are coming from the speakers on both Couric and her husband's computers (they are taking the call in separate rooms of their home), yet we laugh and somehow manage to find a way to make it work. The survival rate for women whose cancer has not spread beyond the breast is 99 percent. Couric said.Īccording to the National Breast Foundation Cancer Foundation, one in eight women develops breast cancer. “Hopefully this will be a kick in the pants for a lot of policymakers and just a lot of women in general to to make sure they are up to date on their screenings,” Ms. Couric said those plans have since languished. The Food and Drug Administration announced planned policy changes in 2019 to address breast density and modernize breast cancer screening, but Ms. Couric, who runs Katie Couric Media and hosts her own podcast, also plans to publish more content about her experience and breast cancer in general throughout October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month.Īccording to the National Cancer Institute, almost half of all women over the age of 40 have dense breasts. Couric’s cancer was detected by an additional ultrasound. Her radiologist, she said, described finding an abnormality in dense breasts like looking for a snowball in a snowy field. ![]() Couric also noted that she had what are known as “ dense breasts,” which makes it difficult for mammograms to detect cancer. On Wednesday, she published an article on her website announcing she had been diagnosed on June 21, on her eighth wedding anniversary, and detailing the treatment she had undergone over the summer.
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