Allison Campbell Jensen

Reporters from WCCO-TV, WCCO Radio, the Minnesota Daily, and me, representing Minnesota Magazine—lined up outside the conference room. Each of us wanted a piece of Katie Couric when she arrived April 24, 2010. She was scheduled to speak that evening to the University of Minnesota Alumni Association annual meeting but each of us hoped to get something special or personal or interesting from Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News. And she delivered. “Sometimes I’ll read things in The New Yorker or Newsweek or Time or the Times and think, damn, they’re such good writers.” And, damn, she was a charming and quotable interview subject.

From “Meet the Anchor.”