Katie Couric Tearfully Announced Her Upcoming Memoir on Twitter – Here’s What Readers Can Expect
Former Today Show star Katie Couric is in the middle of her two-week stint as the first female host of Jeopardy! With an impressive list of journalistic credits to her name throughout her successful career, Couric has been working on her memoir for the past several years. The famous news person just tearfully announced that her manuscript is now in the hands of the publisher.
Katie Couric revealed completion of her book on social media
Fans of Couric are eagerly awaiting the release of her memoir, currently titled Going There. The legendary journalist recently wrapped up her manuscript and let her Twitter followers know it’s going to press. Couric couldn’t hold back tears as she announced the completion of this very personal project.
“I just handed in my manuscript for the memoir that I’ve been writing for the past two-and-a-half, three years, and it’s incredibly emotional,” Couric explained through tears in her March 8 tweet. “It was really hard, but really gratifying. And, um, anyway,” she added with a laugh, “I hope you f*cking like it.”
Already listed on Amazon for pre-order, Couric’s life story is scheduled for release in October 2021. A description of the memoir gives some details on what readers can expect.
“In [Couric’s] brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life – a story she’s never shared, until now,” the Going There synopsis revealed. “Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, ‘Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.’”
Katie Couric’s book will include the Matt Lauer scandal
Couric co-anchored the Today Show with Matt Lauer from 1997 to 2006. Their chemistry and off-camera friendship helped make the NBC morning news program consistently number one in the ratings.
When Lauer was fired from Today due to allegations of sexual harassment, Couric expressed her sadness regarding the actions of her former colleague.
“It’s been painful for me on many levels,” she told USA Today in November 2019. “Especially when it comes to understanding what was going on with Matt – who I think ultimately turned out to be two very different people – in terms of my relationship with him versus some of the other things that were going on.”
With Lauer’s ousting so highly publicized, Couric’s perspective on the scandal is sure to make Going There a big seller.
‘CBS Evening News’ run is also covered in Katie Couric’s memoir
Couric left her Today Show post to head the CBS Evening News as the program’s first solo female anchor. Going from a two-hour morning show to a brief news program was a challenge for the journalist. Ratings soon began to decline.
“That format did not allow me to be as relaxed or to interact as much—to ask questions and show my personality,” Couric told the Harvard Business Review in 2015. “Anchoring the evening news is quite a restrictive job. For the most part, you’re reading lead-ins to other people’s stories and then reading copy. Because the format is so tight—22 minutes in all—I couldn’t relate to the audience in the way I’d been able to in the morning.”
Detailing several obstacles she encountered during her five years at the CBS Evening News desk, Couric’s book also shares how she endured the loss of her first husband to colon cancer when she had two young daughters.
The memoir also includes the story of how Couric found love again in midlife, as well as her myriad of groundbreaking interviews over her decades in news.
Going There is scheduled for release on October 26, 2021.
