Katie Couric was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Shirley (née Ryskind) and Jerry M. Couric, an advertising executive. She was raised in Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in speech communication and spent five years working for WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., before heading to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a television news anchor
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Her first job was on the local news in Pennsylvania; she later moved to Boston's WBZ-TV when she was hired by then-anchor John Orr to be co-anchor alongside Charlie Cook. She then worked at WNBC-TV, where she co-anchored the "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw for two years. She joined CBS News in 1998 as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and anchor of "CBS Sunday Morning."