Categories

Recent Comments


« Perez Hilton's 'exponentially amazing' old media deal | Main | "The Colbert Report": Best week ever »

This and that: Katie Couric gets a visit from Leslie Moonves; NBC News shows the love to Richard Engel

KatiecouricCBS chief Leslie Moonves made a visit to the CBS News offices today as a show of support for embattled anchor Katie Couric. Associated Press' David Bouder has all the details in this report on Moonves' journey into the newsroom and meeting with Couric and "CBS Evening News" exec producer Rick Kaplan, who insisted that reports of Couric's exit from the anchor chair have been greatly exaggerated. "She's not been at it two years and everybody is writing her obituary," Kaplan told the AP. "That's fine. Success is the sweetest revenge."...

Meanwhile, NBC News has locked up the services of its intrepid Middle Eastern correspondent Richard Engel. Engel has been upped to chief foreign correspondent for the Peacock, which is promising to raise his profile on "NBCRichardengel  Nightly News," MSNBC and other platforms. Engel, who is conversant in Arabic and fluent in Italian and Spanish, made a name for himself covering the early days of the Iraq war as a freelancer for ABC before joining NBC News in 2003. "There aren't enough superlatives to describe the work that Richard has done in some of the most dangerous places on Earth for NBC News," said NBC News prexy Steve Capus in touting Engel's promotion.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341bfc7553ef00e551fe4eb38834

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference This and that: Katie Couric gets a visit from Leslie Moonves; NBC News shows the love to Richard Engel :

Comments

Post a comment

If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In.



Print Variety
Bookmark
Get Variety:
Variety Mobile Variety Digital Variety Home Delivery
Newsletter Signup:

About

Cynthia Littleton is deputy editor, news development at Variety and a veteran television reporter.