Yahoo’s Katie Couric a Star Presenter at NewFronts

Wall Street Journal: It has been less than a year since Katie Couric, who once made $15 million a year as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” became the first major television journalist to jump to the web. The 58-year-old will be one of the stars of Yahoo’s big NewFront event for advertisers in New York on Monday, when the company will pitch its latest offerings. Couric has shown some advertiser-wooing power, having brought in new advertisers like Merrill Edge financial services. “They are using her as a tent pole.”