After months of speculation, it’s official: broadcast journalist Katie Couric will be leaving NBC’s Today Show at the end of May to anchor the CBS Evening News. As noted yesterday in the Washington Post, three women — Barbara Walters at ABC, Connie Chung at CBS and Elizabeth Vargas, at ABC’s “World News Tonight” — have co-anchored alongside men. This makes Couric the first solo female anchor of a weekday network newscast. Fishbowl DC has the…

Dan Rather leaves the anchor chair at CBS Evening News tonight after 24 years. His final broadcast is at 7 p.m. and while DCist hasn’t watched a network news broadcast in, say, years, we feel bad for the guy that’s apparently been brought down by bloggers. Will this DCist miss him? Um, probably not. Of all the high profile media anchors that have been jumping ship recently, we have to say it was Bob Edward’s…