Columbia Journalism Review
“Few figures, I think, better capture the absurd financial structure of the network news,” writes Michael Massing. He’s stunned to learn that Katie Couric‘s salary is about $15 million a year, while the combined budgets for “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” are about $11 million.
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Couric’s salary is more than the annual budgets of two NPR programs
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