Katie Couric on the Shifting Landscape of News

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 19 November 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The renowned American journalist talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn.

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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Dan McGinn Senior Editor. HBO Idea
0:33.4	from Harvard Business Review. I'm Dan McGinn, senior editor. Today we're talking with
0:35.8	Katie current. Katie spent 15 years at the today show.
0:39.0	She anchored the CBS Evening News and today she's the global news anchor at Yahoo News.
0:45.1	We're going to touch on Katie's career highlights and how the shift to digital media is changing
0:49.2	the world.
0:50.6	So Katie you've had a long career in TV news which is one of the most political
0:55.8	kinds of businesses around and you've thrived at different networks. How did you
1:00.9	learn to manage up so effectively and deal with bosses?
1:04.0	I don't know if I'm particularly good at managing up. I think the way to get along with your
1:11.0	bosses is to deliver and to do well and to succeed at whatever
1:19.1	metrics are that organization's particular measure of success.
1:25.8	So I think that I wasn't really good at managing up.
1:31.2	In fact, I think that's one area where I could have really improved
1:35.9	and probably could still improve. I've always related to my colleagues, bosses, people I'm working with, people who are working for me, I think in a way that is
1:50.7	sort of very natural and not political.
1:54.0	I'm kind of apolitical in that way.
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