The experienced journalist, 67-year-old Ann Curry, had worked at Today and NBC News for 25 years, which she was forced out in 2012 from Today, and NBC News in 2015. Curry is still working in her own field.
Curry was born in Guam, to her parents Hiroe Nagase and Robert Paul “Bob” Curry. She lived in Japan when she was a child, and later her family moved to Oregon. She had attended to high school and college in there.
It was 1978 when Curry’s career in journalism started as an intern at KTVL, and later she became the first news reporter of the station.
Later, Curry moved to KGW in Portland, where she became an anchor and reported. She then went to Los Angeles, and started to work as a reported for a CBS affiliate. Curry won two Emmy Awards during her time.
In 1990, Curry started to work for NBC News. She started to work as an NBC News Chicago correspondent before she became an anchor for NBC News at Sunrise, and five years later, she started to work at Today show of NBC.
In June of 2012, Curry was out of her job, even though her hard work. She was let go from the Today show, and later in 2015, she was let go from NBC News too, after 25 years of career in the station.
Curry founded a media company and produced PBS series, We’ll Meet Again, and presented a TED Talk presentation about restoring trust in journalism, and hosted a TNT show, Chasing the Cure.
Back in 2022, Curry received the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award from Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, for her work “on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters through her work as an American journalist, photojournalist, and reporter.”
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