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MSNBC - Found Aug. 21, 2008
... going out there and having people think I was Phelps,? Parry told TODAY?s Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry and Al Roker on Thursday.
MSNBC - Found Aug. 21, 2008
Monday.Jim Bell, executive producer of ?Today,? had his complete team of Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry and Al Roker in Beijing, a...
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MSNBCUSA Today - Found Aug. 18, 2008
6:44: Golf cart arrives with Ann Curry and Hoda Kotb. Ann unfurls an umbrella. 'If I get my hair wet, they'll kill me,' she announces.
Washington Post - Found Aug. 17, 2008
NBC's Ann Curry: 'You are very different from the first lady you began as.
Defamer - Found Aug. 11, 2008
... hour has been controversial , at least one good thing has come of it: the manic host has made the incoherent Ann Curry look like Cronkite.
First Coast News - Found Jul. 18, 2008
And when asked if Ann Curry is what she expected, she replied, 'All that and more.' Abigail goes on to explain that Ann Curry didn't just...
NewsBusters.org blogs - Found Jul. 17, 2008
... t let that bit of breaking good economic news get in the way of the pre-planned line of the day of, as Ann Curry put it, "doom and gloom." The...
Cele|bitchy - Found Jun. 27, 2008
Chris Martin: ?Ryan Seacrest designed our outfits? When asked by Ann Curry how they achieved such success, lead singer Chris Martin...
Weird News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com - Found Jun. 11, 2008
TODAY's Ann Curry talks to the man who survived the nail, George Chandler, and his friend Phil Ker...
mediabistro.com: TVNewser - Found Jun. 11, 2008
Now we know why Ann Curry was filling in on Nightly News last night: Brian Williams was on his way to Afghanistan.
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Ann Curry
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 Ann Curry in Antarctica, 2007-11-07 |
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| Born | November 19, 1956 Guam |
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| Occupation | Television Personality Television Journalist |
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| Spouse | Brian Ross | |
| Children | McKenzie Walker |
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| Notable credit(s) | Today Show (1997–) Dateline NBC (2005–) |
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Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American television news journalist and news anchor on NBC's morning television program Today since May 1997 and host of Dateline NBC since May 2005. She, along with Lester Holt, is the primary substitute for Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News.
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Biography
Curry was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and a father of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent from Pueblo, Colorado. Her American father, a career Navy man,[1] met her Japanese mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following the Second World War. The U.S. military did not initially allow the marriage, but her father returned to Japan two years later to marry his bride.
Curry was raised in San Diego and Alameda, California; Japan; Virginia Beach, Virginia and Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School . In 1978, she graduated with a BA Journalism from the University of Oregon.[2]
She is married to software executive Brian Ross whom she met in college. They have a daughter, McKenzie, and a son, Walker. The family lives in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City.
Professional career
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 1981, Curry moved to NBC-affiliate KGW[3] in Portland, where she was a reporter and anchor.
Three 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. During this time, she also served as a substitute anchor and news anchor for the NBC news shows Today and Weekend Today. In May 2005, Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips; she remained as the primary anchor when Phillips left in June 2007. She also continues as news anchor at Today, and is the show's second-longest serving news anchor, behind Frank Blair, who served in that capacity from 1953 to 1975. Starting September 2007 Curry is one of the three anchors for TODAY's third hour. She's a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News weekend editions.[4]
Curry is known for her international reporting of major stories, filing stories from places such as Baghdad, Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of 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 Al Gore.
On December 17, 2007, Curry bungee jumped off the world famous Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough, England to raise money for charity. Her jump was shown live on the Today show at about 8:13 am. During a February 4, 2008 appearance as a guest on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, she discussed that jump, and she invited Conan to do a bungee jump with her. When asked if she would ever bungee jump again she responded by saying she would jump again if he would jump with her.
Volunteerism
- Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation[5]
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation[5]
- Americares[5]
- Save the Children[5]
- Médecins Sans Frontières[5]
- Airline Ambassadors[5]
Awards
- Emmy Awards, presented for coverage of the 1987 Los Angeles earthquake; another presented for reporting on the explosion of a San Bernardino gas pipeline,[6] and a third in 2007 for her reporting on NBC Nightly News about the Darfur crisis[7]
- Golden Mic (4), presented by Radio & Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA)
- Certificate of Excellence, Associated Press
- Gracie, presented by The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television
- Excellence in Reporting, presented by the NAACP
- National Journalism Award, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association, 2003[8]
- Pioneer Award, presented by University of Oregon, 2003
- Hall of Achievement induction, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, 2002[1][9]
- Sexiest Newscaster, as voted on by readers of Ask Men magazine [10]
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, presented by PNC Bank for outstanding achievements in mass communications, 2008
Funded scholarship
- Ann Curry Scholarship for University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Broadcasting Students, 2002[1]
References
- ^ a b c Mack, Ann. "Ann Curry: Living the dream". Flash. University of Oregon. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
- ^ Ann Curry bio from Notable Names Database
- ^ KGW-TV HISTORY retrieved 2007-07-28
- ^ Ann Curry bio retrieved 2007-07-28
- ^ a b c d e f Pace, Giacinta (2007-06-27). "Cause Celeb: Ann Curry", MSNBC. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
- ^ Ann Curry article retrieved 2007-07-28
- ^ Gold, Matea (2007-09-25). "PBS is star of news Emmy show", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
- ^ Curry bio retrieved 2007-07-28
- ^ http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/aprilmay05/features/television&radio.asp retrieved 2007-07-28
- ^ AskMen.com - Ann Curry
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Ann Curry Videos
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Title: Designers for Darfur As seen on the Today Show with Ann Curry
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