Anchors (Except for Katie) Just Don't Get It

Access to Dem lures Gibson, Couric, Williams to Europe, Mideast

(NEWSER) - Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will all be part of Barack Obama’s foreign trip that begins later this week, Howard Kurtz reveals in the Washington Post—as the Dem’s campaign impressively “draws the anchors halfway around the world by offering access.” The ABC, CBS and NBC anchors will interview the candidate on separate nights in different countries. More»

Gibson, Couric and Williams to co-host Sept. 5 event

(NEWSER) - ABC, CBS and NBC have decided to work together to fight cancer, the New York Times reports. Each network's lead news anchor will appear on a Sept. 5 telethon broadcast on all three channels simultaneously. The principles—CBS's Katie Couric, NBC's Brian Williams and ABC's Charlie Gibson—have all lost immediate relatives to cancer. More»

Evening news shows on their last legs

(NEWSER) - Evening network news, with or without Katie Couric aboard, is going nowhere, Ron Grover writes in BusinessWeek—then offers suggestions on what the TV giants should do to hook viewers:

• Make the news available on the viewers' time: Get big-name anchors on tape earlier, and put those newscasts online.

She'll likely launch syndicated talk show, says source

(NEWSER) - It's been rumored for weeks , but a CBS Evening News official is now (anonymously) confirming that Katie Couric is leaving her anchor post. Couric, 54, the first woman in US history to be sole anchor of a daily network news program, plans to start a syndicated talk show some time next year. Couric moved from NBC's Today show to began as CBS anchor in 2006 with major hoopla. But much of her first curious audience drifted away and CBS was stuck in third place behind NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams and ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer. Couric's current contract is up June 4, but it's not yet clear when she will step down, reports AP . More»

....and Brian Wiliams, and Keith Olbermann. Stilll, he's not a convert

(NEWSER) - The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tried Chatroulette last night and, viola, there were Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and a characteristically preachy Keith Olbermann, all doing hilarious bits. Not to speak of Jason Jones in a state of undress doing something we can't repeat here. Stewart claims to find the service, like the rest of the web, to be full of "the bored, the perverse and the random grandma with her first computer." "This isn't a craze—the macarena was a craze," he says. More»