Katie Couric, the new anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, flashes a smile at Rockefeller Center in New York City. (Evan Agostini and Getty Images)
Couric speaks about TV journalism
Broadcast: Midday, 09/05/2006, 12:06 p.m.
The CBS Evening News gets a new face Tuesday. Katie Couric will officially take her place in the anchor chair, becoming the first woman to host one of the big three network T.V. news programs on her own. She spoke in July with interim Anchor Bob Schieffer at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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