Katie Couric: Is Objectivity Dead?

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Trevor and Eugene sit down with author and journalist Katie Couric, who has spent decades at the center of American news, for a wide-ranging conversation about how journalism has evolved. From her early days in traditional broadcast media to her role in today’s digital landscape, Couric has seen the shift from a handful of trusted voices delivering the news to a fragmented, fast-moving media environment where competing narratives often shape how stories are understood. From the evolution of political identity to the influence of social media, the three explore how the way we consume news has changed, and what it might take to rebuild a shared sense of truth in a world that increasingly resists one.

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0:00.0	Who is doing the news in South Africa?
0:08.0	So in South Africa, there's the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which is similar to the BBC, right, in that it's state-funded.
0:15.1	Modeled after the BBC.
0:16.0	Yeah, it's modeled after the BBC.
0:17.2	And then it's state-funded.
0:18.5	People pay a fee, you know, for for having a TV it's like a nominal
0:22.1	fee and that basically goes to funding it um and and they're reporting then we have a few
0:27.8	independent stations as well but none of them have a clear ideological bet no no no that that would
0:34.0	be I think most people agree that would be crazy like Like we wouldn't, we wouldn't, we just.
0:38.8	Like there's not the pro apartheid network.
0:42.8	Oh my goodness, Katie.
0:44.8	Can you imagine the pro apartheid network?
0:49.2	Oh my goodness, what a great idea.
0:51.7	The PAN?
0:53.5	Hi, we're, welcome to P.A.N? Hi.
0:56.6	Welcome to P.A.N.
0:59.8	Oh, wow. My replacement.
1:01.0	Oh, wow.
1:02.2	What a fantastic premise.
1:08.9	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
1:11.6	Oh, this is what now with Trevor Noah.
1:12.6	Yeah.
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