Katie Couric is engaged

Start spreading the news: Katie Couric is totally off the market.

The journalist got engaged over the weekend to her boyfriend of two years, John Molner, her rep confirmed. People reported the financier romantically proposed to Couric on the beach at sunset in East Hampton, New York, presenting her with a diamond ring.

The host of "Katie," is said to have "ecstatically" accepted. Couric lost her husband, Jay Monahan, in 1998 after he died of colon cancer. Her show returns on September 9.