A 1994 clip of Couric and co-anchor Bryant Gumbel struggling to understand an email address became so famous that the pair eventually parodied it in a Super Bowl commercial.

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Apparently, that was the only test screening Gottlieb required to decide the joke was ready for the CBS set alongside Gumbel, Anthony, Smith and Barkley, recalling that there was no pre-show meeting opportunity for him to run the comment by them.

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Smith believes Gumbel is a pioneer especially for Black reporters and media personalities in an industry that still often fails them.

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The correspondent roundtable (featuring Gumbel, Jon Frankel, Soledad O’Brien, Mary Carillo, David Scott, and Andrea Kremer) provided terrific context across the five categories of stories from the show’s run they summarized.

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