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# Katie Couric’s “Going There” Provides Her Thoughts About Some D.C. TV Newscasters
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/katie-courics-going-there-goes-after-local-tv-newscasters/
- Published: 2021-10-25T22:14:32.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-26T14:30:41.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: People, Media, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:51

***Going There*, the new memoir from Katie Couric,** an Arlington, VA, native who was a local DC TV reporter before ascending to network-news stardom, produced a few choice descriptions of colleagues from her time at Channel 4, reports *Washingtonian* magazine. And, continues *Washingtonian*, while none of them “are quite as likely to drive headlines as her dish about the likes of **Larry King**, **Bryant Gumbel**, **Deborah Norville**, or the disgraced **Matt Lauer**, there are some memorable asides all the same,” including:

**Pat Collins**: A “Beltway fixture” who “had the twinkly-eyed, ruddy face of someone who’d wandered in from County Clare. Had we met a century earlier, he would be happily dipping my braids in the inkwell.”

**Susan Kidd**: “A ballsy anchor with an Angela Davis vibe.”

**Steve Doocy**: “Long before he became the host of Fox and Friends, he was a benignly funny features guy at WRC.” He emceed Couric’s wedding reception.

**Wendy Rieger**: “A leggy looker at WRC and my complete opposite.”

**Barbara Harrison**: A “warm, impeccably dressed morning anchor,” she was “the first time I ever saw Bulgari jewelry in the wild.”

**I.J. Hudson**: When management wanted the young Couric to do a cringe-worthy sweeps-week feature called “No Time for Sex,” she suggested the veteran male reporter instead. “He’s married with children; he probably doesn’t have time for sex. I’m 27 and single. I have plenty of time!”

More [here](https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/10/25/heres-what-katie-courics-book-has-to-say-about-dc-local-newscasters/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).