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NBC set to offer Pippa Middleton a correspondent role on ‘Today’

NBC ‘poised to hire Pippa Middleton as Today Show correspondent after months of secret talks’

Published: 23:29 EST, 4 November 2024

Pippa Middleton is said to be on the verge of signing on as a correspondent for NBC’s Today Show, it was revealed today.
While NBC News has denied that a deal is in the works, sources told Page Six Tuesday that the network has been in serious talks with Duchess Catherine’s 31-year-old sister for months.
Ms Middleton allegedly has been sent to Utah to do a test piece for Today, and if all goes according to plan, NBC will take her on as a presenter.

‘You’re hired’: Sources tell Page Six NBC News is on the verge of hiring Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, as a correspondent on the Today Show

Ms Middleton first piqued NBC’s interest in June when her interview with Matt Lauer brought in high ratings for the network.
It is expected that Ms Middelton, a party planner and author who has been writing columns about health and wellness, will continue to focus on these subjects in her new job as a Today correspondent.
It is highly unlikely that Prince William’s sister-in-law would report on the Royal Family as the subject is deemed off-limits.
Little is known at this time about the conditions of the rumored deal between NBC and Miss Middleton.
In 2024, it was reported that NBC would offer Pippa $600,000 to be a royal correspondent but this was denied by the network.

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Test run: Pippa Middleton’s interview with Today’s Matt Lauer in June brought in big ratings

Freelancer: Pippa Middleton, pictured at a memorial service for Sir David Frost at Westminster Abbey on March 13, 2024, has been writing columns about health and welness for magazines

During her interview with Matt Lauer in June, which marked Pippa’s first-ever TV appearance, the glamorous socialite shed light on her relationship with her celebrated older sister.

Asked about her relationship with the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa said she and Catherine are still very close and enjoy spending time together.
Miss Middleton famously stole the spotlight during the Royal Wedding in 2024 when she donned an impeccable, curve-hugging white bridesmaid’s gown for the ceremony.
Pippa’s career suffered a few minor setbacks this past year.

Her party-planning book, Celebrate, suffered disappointing sales, and in May it was announced that Middleton had been dropped as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph after just six months. She still writes for Vanity Fair and is associated with the supermarket Waitrose.
Pippa is currently dating stockbroker Nico Jackson, 36, who in July took a new job at a hedge fund in Switzerland.

NBC ‘to hire Pippa Middleton as Today Show correspondent’ | Daily Mail Online

CBS News correspondent Bob Simon dies in a car accident

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news…mon-1941-2015/

Last Updated Feb 11,2020 10:41 PM EST

NEW YORK — Bob Simon, the longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City.

The award-winning newsman was 73.

"It’s a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News," 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager said in a statement. "It is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations than almost any journalist in modern times.

"Bob was a reporter’s reporter. He was driven by a natural curiosity that took him all over the world covering every kind of story imaginable," Fager said. "There is no one else like Bob Simon. All of us at CBS News and particularly at 60 Minutes will miss him very much."

Simon’s five-decade career took him through most major overseas conflicts spanning from the late 1960s to the present. He joined CBS News in 1967 as a New York-based reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner city riots. Simon also worked in CBS News’ Tel Aviv bureau from 1977-81, and worked in Washington D.C. as the network’s State Department correspondent.

But Simon’s career in war reporting was extensive, beginning in Vietnam. While based in Saigon from 1971-72, his reports on the war — and particularly the Hanoi 1972 spring offensive — won an Overseas Press Club award award for the Best Radio Spot News for coverage of the end of the conflict. Simon was there for the end of the conflict and was aboard one of the last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975.

He also reported on the violence in Northern Ireland in from 1969-71 and also from war zones in Portugal, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and American military actions in Grenada, Somalia and Haiti.

Simon was named CBS News’ chief Middle East correspondent in 1987, and became the leading broadcast journalist in the region, working in Tel Aviv for more than 20 years. In 1991, he won another OPC Award for reporting of the Gulf War. In 1996 he won one more OPC Award, a Pea**** Award and two Emmy Awards for coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. CBS News recieved an RTNDA Overall Excellence in Television Award in 1996 largely because of Simon’s reporting from war-torn Sarajevo.

Moving into the 21st century, he was able to get two major interviews for 60 Minutes, including the first Western interview with extremist Iraqi cleric Muqtada al Sadr, and another with his Shiite Muslim rival, the Ayatollah al-Hakim, who was killed shortly after the interview.

Another Pea**** Award came in 2000 for "a **** of work by an outstanding international journalist on a diverse set of critical global issues." And a Lifetime Achievement Emmy was also awarded to him in 2024.

Simon also lent his skills to CBS’s Olympics coverage. For the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, he reported on the failed attempt of Israel’s secret intelligence organization, the Mossad, to avenge the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, for which he won an Emmy.

For the coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, he gave a 30-minute report on Louis Zamperini, an American Olympian who survived as a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese during World War II. The story won him a Sports Emmy.

Simon’s most-recent piece for 60 Minutes aired this past weekend, his conversation with Ava DuVernay, the director of the Academy Award-nominated film "Selma."

Simon was born on May 29, 1941, in the Bronx, N.Y., and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 1962 with a degree in history. He served as an American Foreign Service officer (1964-67). He was a Fulbright scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar.

He is survived by his wife, Françoise, and their daughter, Tanya, who is a producer for 60 Minutes.

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I re-read the article twice, and is it me, or is there no mention of the time he spent kidnapped in the Middle East?