Former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric weighed in on the network's recent overhaul of the evening broadcast, calling it "more than a little disappointing" that Norah O'Donnell's successors will be two male anchors.
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The network recently announced that John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois would become hosts of CBS Evening News after O'Donnell stepped down following the November election.
Couric wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times: "Don't get me wrong: I know, like and respect these two journalists. But soon the three major networks will have four male anchors. Yes, the talented Margaret Brennan will contribute stories from the Washington Bureau for CBS, but the two people greeting Americans who watch the CBS evening news will be men."
As Couric noted, after the change, the evening newscasts on all three networks will be anchored by men, with Lester Holt at NBC and David Muir at ABC. Brennan, the moderator of Face the Nation, will be a permanent contributor to the CBS broadcast, leading the network’s coverage of political news from Washington, D.C.