Katie Couric Live at City Winery
Conversations with Cam
Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this live show recording of my conversation with Katie Couric at City Winery, we discuss everything from Katie’s experience writing her memoir Going There; to what it was like being the first female anchor in evening news; to being labeled “America’s sweetheart” and the shortcomings of categorizing women with single adjectives. Katie shares how she juggled being a single mother and a full time news anchor, what it was like working with Matt Lauer and how she reacted to his #MeToo reckoning, how she chooses her projects with Katie Couric media, and so much more.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- On Katie’s memoir Going There, her experience writing it, and her favorite review about it
- On the value of taking educated risks
- On the experience of being the first female news anchor in evening news
- Katie’s reaction to being labeled “America’s sweetheart”
- On being a single mom and a full time news anchor
- The important conversations partners should have before lifelong commitment
- What it was like to experience Matt Lauer’s #MeToo reckoning
- On women aging in media and on camera
- On staying tuned into the media landscape and evolving with the times
- On gun violence in this country and what people can do to enact change
- On remaining true to yourself through success and failure
- On producing No Ordinary Campaign and how Katie chooses her projects
- Which news outlets Katie respects and trusts and how she vets information
- Katie’s recent experience with her health and her push for insurance companies to cover additional medical screenings
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:05.0 | Come on in, take a seat, or a drink, pass one knee. |
| 0:11.0 | Record food, dear friends, knock about life's odds and ends. |
| 0:16.0 | Go away on hesitations, have a filter, conversations. |
| 0:21.0 | If you've got the needle and the ears, record food, knee and front. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:28.5 | Guys, this is crazy. |
| 0:31.0 | The wife of the wonderful man who wrote that song is in the audience. |
| 0:34.0 | Daniel, I've been seeing. |
| 0:35.0 | Please stand up. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you, Rob. |
| 0:38.0 | He's not here, but I love you. |
| 0:40.0 | Guys, I cannot believe this. |
| 0:41.0 | I can't really see you guys because it lights on me, which honestly is probably helpful. |
| 0:44.0 | So I don't know how many of you there are. |
| 0:46.0 | I never get nervous, but I'm kind of nervous. |
| 0:49.0 | I also never prepare questions, but with Kenny Kirk, you got to be prepared. |
| 0:52.0 | First, I want to say thank you so much for coming, especially on this shitty rainy Sunday night. |
| 0:57.0 | I was very nervous that no one would show. |
| 1:00.0 | So thank you. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm kind of emotional. |
| 1:03.0 | I am so grateful to be here. |
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