American photo journalist Ann Curry gave her best for the past 30 years reporting on regions challenging war and natural disasters. She has covered various disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami as well as the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

Early Life

Ann celebrate her birthday on the 19th of November 1956 and was born in Agana, Guam, the U.S. She spent her childhood in Japan for several years. She received her education from United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki. And she graduated in 1978 from the University of Oregon with, Bachelor of Arts.

Career

Ann Curry reporting the news.
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Ann Curry is an American journalist and correspondent who also served as the news anchor of The Today Show. She began her career as an intern at NBC-affiliate (now CBS-affiliate) KTVL in Medford, Oregon. She covered a variety of important news and interviewed famous figures of countries during her work as a reporter from Baghdad, Rwanda, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Congo, and Albania Curry worked as a journalist for over 30 years focusing on regions facing war and natural disasters.

Curry has reported from the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo, and the Central African Republic. She earned Grammy Award, in 1987 for her fantastic coverage.

Ann Curry with an Emmy Award.
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Curry moved to Los Angeles as a reporter for KCBS-TV who received two Emmy Awards while working as a reporter from 1984 to 1990. She joined NBC News, a Chicago correspondent then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. She became the national and international correspondent-anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today show in 2012.

Former “Today Show” co-host Ann Curry warned NBC executives about Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct in 2012, the Washington Post reported.

Ann Curry Says She Reported Matt Lauer For Sexual Harassment In 2012
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Family Life

64 years old Ann Curry is a daughter of Robert Paul “Bob” who lives in Japan before coming to U.S. Curry is married to her boyfriend turned husband Brian Ross, a software executive. She has two children namely McKenzie (daughter) and William (son).

Ann Curry with her husband and children.
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Net Worth

Curry has not mentioned her current salary in any media. However she has an estimated net worth of $10 million.

Social Media

Curry is active on social media because she also shares news to public through it. She has a big fan following in her sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. She has about 2m followers on twitter, and about 55k followers on Instagram. Similarly, she has more then 3 k follower on Facebook page.

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