Ann Curry Biography

Ann Curry is an Emmy award-winning News reporter majorly focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has been in the Media industry for more than 30 years. Her television career started at KTVL in Medford, Oregon as an intern in 1978. In her college years, Curry worked as a cocktail waitress.

Ann Curry Age

Ann was born on 19 November 1958 in Agana, Guam.

Ann Curry Height

Curry stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.

Ann Curry Family

Ann was born to Robert Paul Curry and Hiroe Nagase. Her father is an American from colorado and her mother is from Japan. Her parents met when her father worked for the US Navy during the United States occupation of Japan after World War II.

Ann Curry Husband

Curry is married to Brain Ross in 1989. The two met when she was at college. The couple was blessed with 2 children a daughter McKenzie and a son William Walker Curry Ross.

Ann Curry Education

Curry attended the Ernest J. King School on the United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval installation in Sasebo, Nagasaki, where he spent several years as a child. She later relocated to Ashland, Oregon, where she attended Ashland High School and graduated. In 1978, she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon.

Ann Curry Career

In 1978 Curry started her career as an intern for KTVL. There she rose to become the station’s first female news reporter. Curry became a reporter and anchor for NBC station KGW in Portland in 1980. Curry relocated to Los Angeles four years later to work as a reporter for KCBS-TV. Curry joined NBC News in 1990, initially as a Chicago correspondent for the network, then as the host of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 until 1996. Curry previously worked at Today from 1994 to 1997 as a replacement news anchor for Matt Lauer. She worked as a news anchor for Today from 1997 till 2011. Curry was chosen co-host of Dateline NBC alongside Stone Phillips on June 24, 2005; after Phillips left on July 2, 2007, she served as the lead anchor until she replaced Meredith Vieira on Today in 2011. From 2005 through 2011, she was the primary substitute on NBC Nightly News. In June 2012, Curry was widely reported as being replaced as co-host of Today. In 2015, Curry was announced as officially leaving NBC News. Since August 2019, Curry now hosts TNT/TBS’s Chasing the Cure.

Ann Curry Awards and Honors

Emmy Awards presented for coverage of the 1987 Los Angeles earthquake and for reporting on the explosion of a San Bernardino gas pipeline and a third in 2007 for her reporting on NBC Nightly News about the Darfur crisis.
Golden Mike (four times) presented by Radio and Television News Association of Southern California
Quinn Award, Los Angeles Press Club.
Certificate of Excellence, Associated Press
Gracie Award, presented by the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television
Excellence in Reporting, presented by the NAACP
Vision Award, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association,
Pioneer Award, presented by University of Oregon, 2003
Truth in Media Award, presented by the Centre for Responsible Leadership
Hall of Achievement induction, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, 2002
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, presented by PNC Bank for outstanding achievements in mass communications, 2008
Honorary Doctorate in Journalism from Southern Oregon University on May 6, 2010, after giving the commencement address
Curry received an honorary degree from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island on May 16, 2010.
Curry received an honorary doctorate from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, on May 22, 2010, where she also delivered the keynote address to the graduating class. The address briefly gained national news attention as she cited several famous alumni in her speech, only one of whom had graduated from the college. All the other “alumni” had graduated from the Wheaton College in Illinois. Curry later apologized for the gaffe.
Ann Curry Scholarship for University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Broadcasting Students, 2002
Member of the board of directors of the International Women’s Media Foundation
Former member of the board of trustees of the University of Oregon
Member of the board of the American Friends of Yahad-In Unum

Ann Curry Salary

Ann earns a salary of $8 million

Ann Curry Net worth

Curry has an estimated net worth of 30 million dollars from her career as a journalist.