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Couric to anchor from Iraq, Syria

CBS news anchor Katie Couric will celebrate her one-year anniversary behind the desk in New York by taking a 10-day reporting trip to Iraq and Syria.
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Published: Aug. 29, 2007 at 11:30 AM

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- CBS news anchor Katie Couric will celebrate her one-year anniversary behind the desk in New York by taking a 10-day reporting trip to Iraq and Syria.

The network said it plans to devote substantial air time to her coverage, with 16 stories filed by Couric and chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan scheduled to run over four days, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Couric, in her first trip to either country, will anchor the "CBS Evening News" broadcasts live from Baghdad for two nights and from Damascus another two nights.

Couric will be the first network anchor to travel to Iraq since March, when NBC's Brian Williams visited the country for the third time since the start of the war. ABC's Charles Gibson has not gone to the country during the current conflict.

Topics: Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Katie Couric
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