Ann Curry

Ann Curry is an American journalist and photojournalist who has worked as a journalist for more than 45 years, focusing on suffering of people in conflict zones as well as natural disasters. Curry reported on wars from Kosovo, Iraq Syria Lebanon Palestine Afghanistan Darfur Congo. Ann Curry is a journalist anchorperson for television, reporter and anchorperson who was born in 1956. Her best-known role in Today is a National Broadcasting Co. morning news program that broadcasts daily. Curry was renowned for her reporting about natural disasters as well as war broken nations. Curry's mom is Japanese as is her father, who was an US Navy Sargent. After World War II, her parents met during her father's service in Japan. Her father served in the military, so her family had to move around often. The family eventually moved to Ashland Oregon where Curry attended high school. Curry graduated from high school in 1978 and earned the degree of Bachelor's in Journalism at the University of Oregon. The diversity of her experiences as well as her experiences throughout her childhood likely influenced her empathetic way of communicating on issues of international significance. Ann Curry has been a well-known American journalist since the beginning of the 1990s. Curry is currently the NBC news anchor. For more details, you can read Ann Curry's biography. They moved frequently, so Curry didn't stay in one school for more than two years, and she traveled to different areas including San Diego Alameda Oregon and Virginia. Ashland was her final high school. In Medford the following year, she began her career in broadcasting at KTVL Channel 10 as an intern. When she was 22, she became the station's first female reporter. In Portland, Oregon she was appointed anchor and reporter by KGW which is NBC's subsidiary. She moved back into Los Angeles four years later working as a journalist at KCBS TV. She received two Emmy Awards during the six years that she worked for this station.