Report: Katie Couric Offered Daytime Talk Show, Role On CBS’ 60 Minutes

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, whose contract is set to expire in June, may stay at the network as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, according to a report in the New York Post. The paper’s Michael Shain cites “network insiders” saying “an offer to become a regular correspondent for the prestigious Sunday night TV magazine is part of the package being offered Couric–if she’ll stay and do a projected daytime talk show for CBS.”

As Shain notes, Couric’s current contract calls for appearances on 60 Minutes, but “the show’s notoriously prickly producers failed to give her any assignments.”

According to the Post and other reports, 60 Minutes‘ own Scott Pelley remains the frontrunner for the Evening News role after Couric.

For her part, Couric’s kept quiet amid the rampant speculation, with a spokesman telling the Post, “Katie’s on vacation this week,” he added. “Hopefully, the speculation about Katie can take a week off, too.”

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