Leslie Moonves, the President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation, has said Friday at the regular noon meeting at CBS News headquarters that Katie Couric will be the Evening News anchor for the foreseeable future, according to an executive who spilled the news to several press outlets.

Earlier this month, a report in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Couric may leave her job before 2011 when her current contract expires.

"She's our anchor today, she's our anchor tomorrow, and she's our anchor in the future," Moonves said during a visit to the CBS newsroom, Reuters reports. Moonves and CBS News President Sean McManus decided to address staff because they were "getting frustrated that a lot of the facts of what was going on were misrepresented in the newspapers," the executive told Reuters.

Meanwhile, TMZ reports that Katie's reps have already been talking to CNN and others, because she's frustrated with her current job as anchor of the Evening News, but Couric will not leave before Election Day.

Moonves, 59, previously served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation. He was backed in its pro-Couric campaign at the Friday meeting by Sean McManus, the president of CBS News. Moonves allegedly praised the anchor and said that he was proud of Couric and that CBS was lucky to have her.

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric, 51, earns some $15 million a year at CBS. She became co-anchor of the Today show in 1991. She left the job in 2006 despite a $20 million salary offer and went to CBS for $15 million, anchoring the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. She would remain the highest-paid news anchor.

Couric was mocked for blurring the lines between entertainment and reporting, such as in the South Park episode "More Crap," in which a "kurich" is a unit of measurement for fecal matter equivalent to 2.5 pounds.