Known at the time as 'America 's sweetheart ' , Katie Couric was NBC 's star . And in their moment of need , the station is reportedly trying to recapture that magic . According to a series of reports , the 58-year-old newscaster is in talks with incoming chairman Andrew Lack to make a return by replacing disgraced anchor Brian Williams on the Nightly News . NBC has yet to respond to DailyMail.com 's request for a comment . SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Lined up ? Katie Couric is allegedly in talks with NBC chairman Andrew Lack to discuss replacing Brian Williams on the Nightly News . Williams is currently suspended without pay for allegedly fabricating anecdotes . 'It makes sense ( that she could come back ) because she is so closely associated with the brand , ' a source The New York Daily News . 'She and Andy are close friends , but this is still only in the most preliminary stages . ' It is possible that Couric could be lined up for other roles at NBC such as hosting the ratings-poor Today show or working as a 'special correspondent ' in a 'Barbara Walters-type role ' , notes Brian Stelter , author of Top Of The Morning : Inside The Cut-Throat World Of Morning TV . Writing for CNN , Stelter says Couric is one of many A-list reporters that harbor a close relationship with NBC 's returning chairman Andrew Lack - who is credited with masterminding her rise to fame . He writes : 'Lack has a special knack for working with A-list television anchors -- he knows how to massage egos , how to manage internal rivalries , how to pair anchors and producers . ' A 1999 profile of Lack in Brill 's Content said `` a number of on-air talent and top executives have asked to link their contracts with Lack 's -- saying , essentially , `` I do n't want to be here if it is n't Andy . '' Making a return ? Couric , 58 , ( pictured with Today 's Matt Lauer ) became a star on NBC 's Today show . America 's sweetheart : Since being known as America 's sweetheart , she has worked at CBS and 60 Minutes . 'And one of the stars he 's stayed in touch with , through the decades , is Couric . ' The alleged talks come after Williams , 55 , was suspended without pay for allegedly fabricating anecdotes about the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina in news reports and interviews . Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie are temporarily holding the spot until Williams is reinstated or a replacement is found this summer . Couric , who is now at Yahoo News , left NBC in 2006 after 15 years presenting Today . She worked at CBS Evening News until 2011 , while also doing segments for 60 Minutes for a reported salary of $ 15 million a year - the most ever for a journalist at the time . The meeting comes as NBC tries to fumble its way back into viewers ' hearts after the scandal surrounding Brian Williams ' fabricated anecdotes . Williams , 55 , is currently suspended without pay as a team investigates claims he lied in reports about the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina , among others . In 2011 , Couric was allegedly in talks to return to Today to reunite with her former co-host Matt Lauer - a move that was never realized . According to Stelter , in his book Top Of The Morning , Couric said at the time : ' I feel like it would have been a fun thing to reunite and to show that you can go home again . 'But I also thought , there 's a reason why I left the show . ' Her most famous interview came in 2008 when she sat down with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for a series of pieces that many believed doomed Palin and McCain 's campaign . In was during that interview that Palin famously talked about Alaska 's proximity to Russia and was unable to name a single magazine she read on a regular basis , instead telling Couric ; 'Um , all of them , any of them that have been in front of me all these years . ' Palin would later claim that Couric had a bias against her . Couric left CBS in 2011 to go work as a special corespondent at ABC , where she did segments for Nightline and 20/20 and filled in on all their morning programs at some point : The View , Live with Kelly and Good Morning America . Then , in 2012 , she launched her own talk show , Katie , on ABC , which was cancelled after just two seasons in 2014 . After leaving ABC there were rumors she might rejoin Today as the show was struggling in the ratings .
Couric , 58 , rose to fame on NBC 's Today from 1991 to 2006 . She has reportedly met with returning chairman Williams . NBC is struggling to reinvent itself after the Brian Andrew Lack scandal . Andrew Lack was suspended without pay for 'fabricating anecdotes in reports '