Related Clues:

• Primary support person
• Couric or Williams
• Sailor's tattoo, perhaps
• Katie Couric, for one
• Object intentionally dropped
• News coordinator
• Do a news job
• Brian Williams, e.g.
• Linchpin
• Stabilizing influence
• Last leg of a relay
• Network news VIP
• Rather, once
• It holds the ship in place
• Brake for a boat