AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher is reporting some new important points Saturday about Katie Couric’s all-however-reputable transfer from ABC Information to Yahoo. Consistent with Swisher’s multiple sources at the company, Yahoo is planning to announce the deal Monday, which might name Couric as the web large’s “world news anchor.”
The record says that Couric will host a “high-profile interview express”–not in contrast to the daytime speak show Katie she has helmed for ABC considering September, 2012–so as to be prominently featured on Yahoo”s extremely-trafficked home page. “That title could alternate, in fact,” Swisher writes. “So might the deal or its timing, even if it seems set now after months of negotiations with ABC News, which is both Yahoo’s on-line information associate and likewise Couric’s present residence community.”
In addition to her daily talk show, Couric additionally presently hosts the net-best express “Katie’s Take,” which is shown on Yahoo and ABCNews.com. Ahead of that, when she was anchoring the CBS Night News, her online application “@katiecouric” featured lengthy-type interviews and launched in 2009 with a 45-minute sit down down with Glenn Beck.
Read Swisher’s full document at AllThingsD.com.
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