Ann Curry

Ann Curry is a well-known American journalist. She has worked as a reporter for more than 45 years. Much of her work focuses on serious events like wars and natural disasters. She has traveled to many places to tell these stories. These include Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo, and the Central African Republic.

Her reporting helps people understand what is happening in far-away lands. She often visits places where life is very difficult for the people living there.

One way she helps is by using technology to spread news. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, she used Twitter to ask for help. Twitter is a social media site where people share short messages. Her message was very powerful. It helped speed up the arrival of humanitarian planes. These planes carry food and medicine to people in need. She was also the first network news anchor to report from the Southeast Asian tsunami zone in 2004.

This shows how her work can lead to real action.

Ann Curry's career has many important steps. She began as an intern at KTVL in Oregon in 1978. Later, she worked at KGW in Portland and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. She won two Emmy Awards while working in Los Angeles. In 1990, she joined NBC News. She worked there for nearly 25 years. She was a news anchor for the show Today from 1997 to 2011. She also hosted Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011. In 2012, she became a national and international correspondent for the network.

Ann was born on November 19, 1956, in Agaña, Guam. Her mother, Hiroe Nagase, is Japanese. Her father, Robert Paul "Bob" Curry, was an American from Colorado. He was a sailor in the United States Navy. Her parents met in Japan after World War II. Ann lived in many places as a child. She lived in Japan, San Diego, Alameda, and Virginia Beach. She eventually moved to Ashland, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 1978 with a degree in journalism.

Today, Ann continues to tell important stories. In 2015, she left NBC to start her own media company. She later hosted a show on PBS called We'll Meet Again. This show follows people searching for others who changed their lives. She also produced a show called Chasing the Cure in 2019. Her hard work has earned her many honors. In 2022, she received the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2024, she received the Damon Runyon Award. She remains a respected voice in news.