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Next Question with Katie Couric
Tired of political headlines that feel like déjà vu? Wondering if you actually need to care about every controversy? This season, Katie’s asking those same questions—and talking to the people who have real answers. From political insiders to sharp-eyed journalists, she’s breaking down what’s worth your attention (and what’s not), with smarts, sanity, and even a little humor. Because none of us can be tuned in 24/7—but we can stay informed…
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From Hurricane Katrina to COP26: How to be a stubborn optimist in the face of the climate crisis
Over the past two weeks, world leaders and delegates from nearly every country have gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26. This annual summit on climate…
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From cancer to #MeToo: How Katie wrote about the hard stuff in her memoir
This week on Next Question with Katie Couric, part 2 of Katie’s behind-the-scenes look at the making of her memoir, “Going There.” Last week introduced…
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Katie’s memoir is out! Here’s a behind-the-scenes listen at the making of ‘Going There’
It’s finally here! To celebrate the release of Katie Couric’s memoir “Going There,” Next Question with Katie Couric is releasing the first of two very…
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Katie’s cub reporting days, the state of local news and the journalists reinvigorating the industry
Katie Couric got her start in local news, and found her footing as a broadcast journalist, reporting for WTVJ in Miami. But that was nearly 40 years ago…
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How the ‘Couric Effect’ -- 20 years later -- inspired Sen. Klobuchar to share her cancer story
Twenty-one years ago, Katie Couric aired her first colonoscopy on the ‘Today Show.' It was an up-close and personal experience that helped demystify a…
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Stanley Tucci gets very personal
This week on Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie has another delightful excuse to talk to Stanley Tucci, this time about his memoir, “Taste: My Life Through…
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For Anita Hill, the work is never done
This fall marks the 30th anniversary of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the testimony of Anita Hill. It was an historic moment and one that…
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The new season of Next Question is ... all about Katie!
It’s a big season for Next Question with Katie Couric because this fall Katie is going to dive into … Katie! With the release of her memoir, “Going There,” on…
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Bonus: Dr. Anthony Fauci breaks down confusion around the Delta variant, breakthrough cases, and more
It should have been our summer of joy but the pandemic rages on, surpassing a grave new milestone this month: more than 200 million global COVID cases. On this…
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Summer book series: Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone is known for portraying a certain type of brash, cunning villain, like Catharine Tramell in “Basic Instinct,” Lori Quad in “Total Recall,” or…
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Summer book series: Julianna Margulies
Over the course of her impressive career, Julianna Margulies has starred on some wildly popular television shows. She played Nurse Carol Haloway on the…
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Summer book series: Justin Baldoni
Justin Baldoni is a producer, director and actor who is probably best known for his long-running character on “Jane the Virgin.” Across the show’s five…
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Summer book series: Ursula Burns
Ursula Burns has had an impressive career that is often summarized by an historic achievement: that when she became the CEO of Xerox in 2009 she was the first…
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Summer book series: Amanda Kloots
In March 2020, as COVID-19 started to grip the nation, fitness entrepreneur Amanda Kloots was settling into a new city (Los Angeles) with her husband Nick…
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Summer book series: Mary Karr
If you’re going to have a summer series on memoirs, there is truly no better person to begin with than the boss of memoir herself, Mary Karr. In 1995, Mary…
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Stay tuned for Katie’s new summer book series!
It’s summer! And here on Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie’s celebrating the shortest season with a fun series on books! But not just any books —…
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Bonus: A spoiler-filled conversation with the cast and creators of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
It's Emmy season and on this bonus episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie shares “The Handmaid's Tale” cast and creators panel she hosted for awards…
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Sponsored: After COVID-19, are we better prepared for the next pandemic?
On this sponsored episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie sits down with Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, the executive vice president and chief patient…
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Ibram Kendi isn’t waiting around for equality
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is one of the country’s leading anti-racist scholars. And, in fact, everything that Dr. Kendi does — as a professor, an author, a…
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Stacey Abrams on writing romance novels and political thrillers in her spare time
Stacey Abrams is known for a lot of things — her voting rights work, for flipping Georgia blue in 2020, for not winning the state’s gubernatorial race in 2018…
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Bowen Yang found his sense of humor during fourth grade recess
“This is never going to be on TV,” says Bowen Yang, reflecting on the now-viral Saturday Night Live sketch where he plays the iceberg that sank the Titanic…
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Michael Lewis saw this coming
Best-selling author Michael Lewis has a knack for extracting page-turning drama out of otherwise mundane and complicated subjects (hello, bond trading and…
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Hillary Clinton has no complaints
This week on Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie sits down with former Secretary of State, former Democratic nominee for president, former First Lady…
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When trauma is shared: How to heal together
It has been a brutal year. Not only for the loss, heartache and isolation the pandemic has brought, but also the relentless and senseless violence, the mass…
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta on how to build a better brain
This past (very long) year, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been immersed in all things COVID-19, as CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent reporting on the front lines of…
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Bonus: The making of 'Nomadland' with director Chloé Zhao
The Oscars are on the horizon and though it’s been a strange year for the movie industry, the race for the golden statue is nothing short of historic. Notably…
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones on how to tap into your professional troublemaker and do better
Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a writer, speaker and author of two New York Times best-selling books, “I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual” and her latest…
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Kathryn Hahn on the Marvel madness, her comedy heroines, and getting her juiciest roles post-40
Kathryn Hahn is an absolute scream, as you may have guessed from watching her in the hit Marvel TV show “WandaVision.” Or maybe you first took notice of her…
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Bonus: Colon cancer awareness: ‘I should have gotten my colonoscopy, that’s the lesson’
On this special episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie dives into a subject very close to her heart: colon cancer awareness. After Katie’s first…
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Kate Winslet on the media bullies, Hollywood’s new sisterhood and her own reckoning with Woody Allen
Twenty-six years ago, Kate Winslet sat down for her first nationally televised, American interview with none other than Katie Couric when she was co-host of…
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Bonus: Don Lemon on his new book and finding grace among the racial tumult
Don Lemon is busy! The CNN Tonight anchor has spent the year guiding and framing the public’s understanding of a deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s death, the…
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Stanley Tucci does — and eats — it all
On this week’s episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie chats to everyone’s favorite pandemic sauce man, Stanley Tucci. They talk about Stanley’s new…
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The pandemic anniversary: What we’ve learned about health care, science, and ourselves
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. And, after watching the slow tidal wave of infections, deaths, and fear…
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Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar on the art of skewering everyday racism
“You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey,” is the title of the very funny, if completely horrifying, new book by comedian and late-night host Amber Ruffin…
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Robin Wright on her new film ‘Land’ and the power of human resilience
On the first episode of the new season of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie sits down with actor, director, activist Robin Wright who stars in and directs…
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Bonus: An Interview with Maryland Governor Larry Hogan
On this bonus episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie shares a timely and important conversation with Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. As a Republican…
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Get ready for season 3 of Next Question with Katie Couric!
Next Question with Katie Couric is back with its third season! After taking some podcasting detours to help make sense of an unprecedented 12 months — from the…
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Bonus: The Lincoln Project founders on the future of the GOP
Next Question with Katie Couric is gearing up for its third season, launching Feb. 25, 2021. In the meantime, Katie shares a really important and fascinating…
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TURNOUT Episode 10: ‘If we raise our expectations we would have a better system’
This series began in the past, to better understand the origin and history of our ongoing fight for voting rights. And as Turnout comes to a close, we consider…
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Bonus: Vaccines for dummies with Moderna President Dr. Stephen Hoge
For the last nine months, as the coronavirus swept across the world, devastating so many lives in its wake, scientists have been working around the clock to…
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TURNOUT Episode 9: ‘Giving makes me feel like I’m living’
You’ve no doubt heard that the 2020 election welcomed historic turnout. But what do those high numbers of voters mean for our democracy, for future elections…
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TURNOUT Episode 8: Georgia’s Secretary of State on why ‘integrity still matters’
All eyes are on Georgia this week as it wraps up its manual recount of nearly 5 million ballots. On Friday, November 13, when the recount began, several news…
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TURNOUT Episode 7: 'Stepping out of your partisan self'
On this episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, Katie shares her hopes and the need for open-mindedness as the country welcomes in the next administration. Then…
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TURNOUT Episode 6: ‘There’s going to be some soul searching in both parties’
We are finally on the other side of the 2020 presidential election and it was — as promised — unprecedented. And a big part of that is because of you! Voters…
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TURNOUT Bonus: David Brooks on why ‘restoring trust in each other is the elemental task'
It's election week! And in this special bonus issue of Turnout, Katie Couric talks with New York Times columnist David Brooks about the moment when we fell…
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TURNOUT Episode 5: ‘More rhetoric than reality’
We’ve always said that this series was about so much more than this election. As we’ve shown in the first four episodes, the voting issues of our past — and…
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TURNOUT Episode 4: ‘Young people are the moral compass of the country’
This week on Turnout with Katie Couric: the power and drive of youth activism. First, 19-year-old youth activist Tyler Okeke makes the case for lowering the…
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TURNOUT Episode 3: ‘A guerrilla act of subversion’
This week on Turnout, Katie Couric explores how disinformation is used to suppress the vote and how it’s being tackled by activists and citizens alike. While…
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TURNOUT Episode 2: ‘I’m coming back to Selma to start a movement’
Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when she first met Martin Luther King, Jr. It was late 1964 and Dr. King was in Selma, Alabama, to organize a voter…
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TURNOUT Episode 1: ‘Democracy is a group sport’
The right to vote can sometimes be described as a “struggle,” a “fight,” even a “war.” But how did this come to be and who has been fighting to make every…
Next Question with Katie CouricBack to Biz with Katie and Boz: Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger
On this special episode of Back to Biz with Katie and Boz, Katie takes the mic solo and shares her conversation with Disney Executive Chairman, Bob Iger. Early…
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Bonus: An interview with The Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt
On this special episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie sits down with former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. While Schmidt might not be a…
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Bonus: An interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
On this special episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie shares an important conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci. As Director of the National…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: University presidents Michael Roth and James Ryan
It’s that time of the year when students typically descend upon university campuses around the country — moving into dorm rooms, filling up stadiums, cramming…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: The mom of mom influencers Christine
You don’t have to be a parent to recognize that parenting during COVID is a struggle. When the coronavirus shut down daycare facilities and schools across the…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: Ashley Graham
The multi-hyphenate talent Ashley Graham has innovated a career that has spread across fashion, beauty, television, and podcasting. Ashley started modeling…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: La La Anthony
This week on Back to Biz with Katie and Boz, Katie Couric is on book deadline! While she’s busy writing, Bozoma Saint John sits down for an intimate…
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Bonus: H&R Block CEO Jeff Jones on leading a company with purpose
On this special surprise episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, we’re sharing an unreleased interview Katie did back in February with H&R Block CEO Jeff…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
2020 was going to be a big year for Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: With a valuation around $31 billion, Airbnb was going to go public on March 31. And then the…
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Back to Biz with Katie and Boz: Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is a comedy powerhouse in Hollywood. From “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” to “Knocked Up” and “This is 40,” Judd has altered the comedy-making template…