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Katie Couric Leaving CBS Evening News Anchor Chair, According To Network Executive (HuffPost / AP)
Katie Couric is leaving her anchor post at CBS Evening News less than five years after becoming the first woman to solely helm a network TV evening newscast.
SB Nation Sacks AOL In Raid Of Former Engadget Team For Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes In On New EiC (AllThingsD / BoomTown)
Jim Bankoff, the former AOL executive responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, grabbed eight staffers who left the huge tech site amid tensions recently, in order to start a new gadget property. The site -- which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky -- will debut sometime in the fall. It is the first content expansion at Washington, D.C., sports news site SB Nation, which is helmed by Bankoff. NYT: Engadget's relationship with AOL was always tense. A high-velocity site that competed for technology news with the likes of Gizmodo and CNET, Engadget never fit in with other AOL properties, largely middle-of-the-road, just-good-enough sites that didn't bring a lot to the table. paidContent: The timing couldn't be better for SB Nation, which literally has the money in the bank for expansion after raising $23.5 million and a scalable content-management system already built (and tested). Joshua Topolsky: Of course, the natural question I'm sure a lot of people have is: Why SB Nation? The easy answer is that the people at SB Nation share my vision of what publishing looks like in the year 2011. They think the technology used to create and distribute news on the Web (and mobile) is as important as the people who are responsible for the content itself. But beyond the technology (and possibly more important than the technology), there's another factor here that's driving my decision. It's that SB Nation believes in real, independent journalism and the potential for new media to serve as an answer and antidote to big publishing houses and SEO spam -- a point we couldn't be more aligned on.
Good Morning America Hits New Low With Younger Viewers (TVNewser)
A news-filled first quarter of 2011 helped ABC's Good Morning America close the gap with No. 1 NBC's Today in total viewers. But the first three months of 2011 saw the lowest delivery ever for GMA in the lucrative adults 25-54 demo.
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