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Ann Curry has been involved in journalism for 40 years, she is most famous for hosting NBC's “Today” show.

Background 
Ann Curry was born on November 19, 1956, Her parents, Bob Curry and Hiroe Nagase had a loving marriage which produced five wonderful children. Curry is the eldest of five children and was a darling and caring older sister to them.

Ann was born in Guam but spent a major portion of her childhood in Japan. Her father was an American navy Sailor and her mother is Japanese. She studied at the Ernest J. King School in Sasebo, Nagasaki on the US Fleet Activities Sasebo because her father’s nacy union was stationed there. She completed her primary school studies at the Ashland High School in Ashland, Oregon.

Her major subject during college at the University of Oregon was journalism and she obtained her bachelor’s degree in 1978.

Journalism Career 
Ann Curry is a strong personality and is beloved by her peers in the field of journalism. Her focus is mainly on humanitarian reporting.

After she finished up college, she did her internship at the KTVL station in Medford, Oregon. The channel was then a NBC Affiliate which gave Ann legit experience with a national network. She was highly respected by the channel and slowly she became the channel’s first female news reporter.

Next in her journey, she worked with the KCBS-TV station and went on to win two Emmy Awards. For her work at KCBS-TV, she had to move to Los Angeles. Living in Los Angeles was a great treat for her because she had always admired the popular city.

After her stint in Los Angeles, she went on to join NBC news in 1990 as a Chicago Correspondent. There, she anchored for NBC News Sunrise during a period between 1991 to 1997 and she also worked on Today from 1997 to 2011.

In the year 2005, Ann was successful in adding another big time show to her resume. The name of the show was Dateline NBC. She also served as a substitute for the show NBC Nightly News from 2005 to 2011.

Curry has been admired for her amazing reporting on a lot of important international stories. She has reported from conflict zones like Baghdad, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka.  Ann’s fearless journalism could be credited to the fact that she was the very first <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">reporter</a> to get in the Tsunami zone of the 2004 Southeast Asian Tsunami and report from there. Her interviews with <a href="/biography/michael-bloomberg">Mayor</a> <a href="/biography/michael-bloomberg">Michael Bloomberg</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore">Al Gore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Franks">Tommy Franks</a> are some of the biggest interviews she has presented to her viewers. Curry made more headlines when she made got an exclusive change to interview Iranian President in the year 2009 a few days before his speech of UN general Assembly was due.

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Reuniting Lost Families 
Ann Curry's parents met after World War II while they two were in Japan. Her American born father was stationed there as a member of the US Navy. He fell in love with a local Japanese woman who ended up being Ann’s mother. He wanted to marry her immediately but the military denied his request. Even though the war had ended, there were still some tension between the two countries. There was a policy that did not allow members of the  US military marry women from Japan.

Her parents were eventually reunited after not seeing each other for two years. Ann wanted to start a new show for PBS that would tell stories of people who reunited after long periods of lost contact. The show is called “We’ll Meet Again”. NPR asked Ann about how she got the idea to start the heart warming series, “It started actually with my co-executive producer, a woman named Justine Kershaw, who as a young woman had fallen off a mountain. She had been hiking, and she was in Europe. She was a <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">dancer</a>. And she ripped, you know, so much of herself up. She was really hurt by this fall. And there were a couple of men who were, I believe they were goat herders, and they sort of happened by and they rescued her. They carried her down the mountain. They made sure she got to care.

And then years later, after she had no longer been dancing and she now was a <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">wife</a> and she had children, she decided that she wanted to go back to this mountain. It was something kind of meaningful to her about it. So she went back to the mountain and she ran into, not expecting to, the goat herders. And what really stunned her was their reaction. They started sobbing and really were just so glad to see her and so glad to see how well she was doing because they never heard what happened after she had left on that emergency exit, you know, to a hospital to patch her back up.”

After her decades of work as a TV anchor, Ann felt that her next step in life was to do shows like her new project on PBS. The idea had always been brewing inside of her but she was held back by her work. Now that she has time on her hands, she is ready to spread her creative wings.

Personal Life 
Ann is also known for her philanthropic work and in the year 2007 she jumped off the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough in order to support a fundraising event for charity. She has also made appearances for the Kindness Counts PSA of the PBS Kids program, Sprout.

Ann is a happily married <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">woman</a> and has two children. The name of her husband is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ross_(journalist)">Brian Ross</a>. Curry had a successful career and used to draw a huge salary before saying goodbye to the NBC News in the year 2015. She was let go because the network felt that the lack of chemistry between her and her partner, <a href="/biography/matt-lauer">Matt Lauer</a> was the reason for the show’s declining ratings.

While being a big figure in journalism, she has not only brought fame and fortune to herself, but she has also boosted her net worth to 10 million dollars. She still continues to do commendable work in the field of philanthropy and has also branched out to other projects.

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