Mashable’s Seth Fiegerman and Brian Solis exchanged thoughts on why Yahoo announced the hire of Katie Couric as its Global Anchor. Here’s a snapshot of the discussion…

Brian Solis, a principal analyst with Altimeter Group who has worked with Couric, notes that the anchor has experimented in the past with creating news items targeted to specific mobile platforms, which may be part of her appeal to Yahoo.

“The two are going to really play to see if they can create news on demand, news to go, news that adapts to each of the screens,” Solis told Mashable. That, in turn, will give Yahoo more premium content with a big name attached, which it can convince advertisers to sell ads against. “I could see Marissa creating a sales team and a set of products that will be native to each of those screens,” Solis said.

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