What are the odds? I spent what would have been my prime mommy-blogging years, before the Interweb was anyone’s darling, working at CBS News at 524 West 57th St. Now, some of my sweet, funny mommy blogging friends went through the same door I used every day for 7 years to meet with Katie Couric. Here’s what happened:
Pretty cool, huh? My 9 years at TODAY never crossed with Katie and clearly my CBS years were the "Place to Be" years, well before hers but it sure was fun to see the girlfriends sashay on in and charm her to pieces. But then, that’s what they do.
Blogger roll call for The Visit – drawn from original host SV(Silicon Valley) Moms:
- Meet The Parents (Who Blog): Katie Couric from CBS News
- If You Knew Katie, Like I know Katie: Kelcey from New York City Moms Blog
- K-K-K-K-Katie: Holli from Baby Faith
- Katie Couric Knows Yiddish: Nancy from New York City Moms Blog
- Girl Crush: Kelcey from The Mama Bird Diaries
- You Had Me At Katie Couric: Beth from Role Mommy Confessions
- Meeting Katie Couric: Stacy from Laptop Television
- My Afternoon With Katie Couric – No. Really!: Danielle from FoodMomiac
- Our Own Little "Digital-Era Sweatshop: Liz from Mom-101
- Meeting Katie Couric: Kimberly from Petroville
- Katie Couric: "Mommy Bloggers" Heart You: Joanne from PunditMom
- Kudos To Katie: Amanda May from New York City Moms Blog
- Katie Couric Rocks It With The Mommy Bloggers: Amy from The Ladybug And Her Blogging Mama
- Once More, Amy Is Famous: Amy from Mums The Word
- Devra from Parentopia
- Lisa Stone, Surfette and co-goddess of BlogHer
- Original post on New York City Moms Blog about meeting Katie Couric.
It was such a good time, but I’m so jealous that you actually worked there… I commented on more than one occasion that it looked like the best place to work. Everyone was smiling and happy – and people were sitting on yoga balls instead of chairs (okay, just one guy). People working together in the spirit of creativity? I couldn’t have imagined such a thing in my days of cubicle life in Dallas tech world!!
How fun!!
xoxo
Actually Holly it WAS fun when I was there – fierce but fair and something to be very proud of. I think the spirit of creativity is still there to some degree, but things have changed a lot; the golden CBS News days are long-gone. The thing is, news people are adrenaline junkies so we’re always happy when we’re on deadline… it’s just that these days there often aren’t enough resources — and there’s such emphasis on ratings — so it’s tough to do the job the way you want to. It’s why I happily moved over to the Interweb.
I wrote a post about it after going to the book party for one of the stalwarts of that era, Roger Mudd. It’s linked in this post as “the place to be” if you’re interested. Thanks for stopping by.
Amazing how some things are cyclical, huh.
Yeah but I don’t think news is ever going to return to the golden days. As for Katie, there will be books written about her tenure there – for sure.