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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Katie Couric, the first woman in the nation to serve as solo network evening news anchor, ended her stint on "CBS Evening News" on Thursday, saying it had been "an incredible journey" and "an extraordinary privilege." "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley will succeed Couric, whose contract is up in June, on June 6. Couric moved to CBS News after 15 years as co-host of NBC's top-rated morning show, "Today," and at the time spoke of plans to revamp and update the nightly network news format. Couric won a number of prestigious awards during her relatively brief tenure and scored journalistic coups, but never managed to lift "CBS Evening News" out of third place behind "NBC Nightly News" and "ABC World News." "I'm gonna be here for a while."
– Katie Couric, the first woman to be solo anchor of an evening network news show, has officially signed off on her 5-year stint at CBS. Couric's final CBS Evening News broadcast included an interview with Hillary Clinton and a "5 years in 5 minutes" retrospective of her time as anchor, Reuters reports. "It's been an extraordinary privilege to sit in this chair," she said before the segment, which included interviews with George W. Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and, of course, Sarah Palin. She thanked viewers "for coming along with me on this incredible journey." 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley will succeed Couric, who is believed to be close to a deal for a daytime talk show on ABC.