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Pelley is everything Couric was not: an internal hire, relatively cheap (probably), cast from the traditional anchor mold (read: a white guy with a nice head of hair), with a background primarily in hard news.
Vieira bested a host of internal candidates for the role alongside Matt Lauer, including weekend "Today" anchor Campbell Brown, "Today" newsreader Ann Curry and newswoman Natalie Morales.