Ann Curry

Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist and photojournalist, who has been a reporter for more than 45 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters.

Curry has reported from the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo, and the Central African Republic.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1978.

Curry began her broadcasting career in 1978 as an intern at then NBC-affiliate (now CBS-affiliate) KTVL in Medford, Oregon.

There she rose to become the station's first female news reporter.

In 1980, Curry moved to NBC-affiliate KGW in Portland, where she was a reporter and anchor.

Four years later, Curry moved to Los Angeles as a reporter for KCBS-TV and received two Emmy Awards while working as a reporter from 1984 to 1990.

In 1990, Curry joined NBC News, first as the NBC News Chicago correspondent then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996.

Curry also served as a substitute news anchor for Matt Lauer from 1994 to 1997 at Today.

From 1997 to 2011, she served as news anchor at Today, becoming the show's second-longest serving news anchor, behind Frank Blair, who served in that capacity from 1953 to 1975.

During this time, she also served as a substitute anchor for Today.

Curry reported from the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during the invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001, and had an exclusive interview with General Tommy Franks.

She reported from Baghdad in early 2003, and then from the USS Constellation (CV-64) as the war in Iraq began.

Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powerful' list, credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.

Curry was also the first network news anchor to report from inside the Southeast Asian tsunami zone in late 2004.

She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011.

On June 24, 2005, Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips; she remained as the primary anchor when Phillips left on July 2, 2007, until she replaced Meredith Vieira on Today in 2011.

She was the primary substitute on NBC Nightly News from 2005 to 2011.

Curry has reported on major international stories, filing stories from places such as Baghdad, Sri Lanka, Congo, Rwanda, Albania, and Darfur.

Curry hosted NBC's primetime coverage and highlights of the Live Earth concerts on July 7, 2007, and also contributed with interviews for the special with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Vice President Al Gore.

On December 17, 2007, Curry bungee-jumped off the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough, England, to raise money for charity.

Her jump was shown live on the Today show.

In 2009, Curry traveled to Iran, where she interviewed then-President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad days before Ahmadinejad traveled to America to speak in front of the United Nations General Assembly.

She was co-anchor of Today from June 9, 2011, to June 28, 2012, and the program's news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-anchor.

In 2011, Curry appeared in the first PBS Kids Sprout "Kindness Counts" public service announcement.

In June 2012, she became the national and international correspondent-anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today show.

In June 2012, Curry was widely reported as being replaced as co-host of Today.

Curry hired attorney Robert Barnett to represent her in her discussions with NBC.

On January 13, 2015, it was announced that Curry would be leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years.

In January 2015, Curry founded her own multi-platform media startup.

She continued to conduct major news interviews on network television, including securing an exclusive interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in 2015 about the Iran nuclear talks.

She hosted and produced We'll Meet Again with Ann Curry from 2018 to 2019 on PBS.

Ann Curry was born in Agaña, Guam, the daughter of Hiroe Nagase and Robert Paul "Bob" Curry.

Her mother is Japanese, and her father, an American from Pueblo, Colorado, had Irish and German ancestry.

Her parents met when her father, a career United States Navy sailor, worked as a streetcar conductor during the United States occupation of Japan after World War II.

Although he was transferred out of Japan, he returned two years later to marry Nagase.

Curry is the eldest of five children.

Curry lived in Japan for several years as a child, and attended the Ernest J. King School on the United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki.

During her childhood, she also lived in San Diego, Alameda, California, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Later, she moved to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School.