The experienced journalist, who turns 67 on November 19, has kept a low profile since being thrown out of her position at Today in 2012 and then NBC News in 2015.
Curry continues to work in journalism, despite the fact that her name no longer appears in headlines.
Robert Paul “Bob” Curry and Hiroe Nagase had five children; the firstborn, Curry, was born on Guam. She spent a good chunk of her childhood in Japan before her family relocated to Oregon, where she finished high school and went on to get a bachelor’s degree.
In 1978, she worked at KTVL, an NBC affiliate in Oregon, to start her career in broadcasting. She became the first female news reporter at the station after a successful internship.
She was already two years into her career when she relocated to Portland to serve as a reporter and anchor at KGW. She then relocated to Los Angeles and spent six years reporting for a CBS station there.
Two Emmys were bestowed to her during that period.
Career at NBC News
Curry started working at NBC News in 1990.
She got her start as a reporter for NBC News in Chicago and later became an anchor for the now-defunct NBC News at Sunrise. For five years, she was the morning show’s anchor and sometimes stood in for Today’s Matt Lauer.
She became Today’s news anchor in 1997 and remained in that role until 2011.
In 2005, Curry was appointed co-anchor of Dateline NBC. From 2005 to 2011, she was the principal replacement on NBC Nightly News. Curry also reads the news on Today.
Curry lost her job in June 2012 despite her many plaudits and coverage of challenging news events.
The reason for her resignation was never made particularly clear, and her exit was both public and painful.
Despite her departure from Matt Lauer’s chair, she stayed on with NBC News until January 2015.
Life after NBC News
Curry slowed down after a 25-year stint at NBC News, but her reporting was just as influential.
In addition to hosting TNT’s Chasing the Cure and reporting and producing the Public Broadcasting Service series We’ll Meet Again, she also delivered a TED Talk on rebuilding faith in the news media and established a multi-platform media firm.
Curry was presented with the Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 by the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Her “work as an American journalist, photojournalist, and reporter” on “human suffering in war zones and natural disasters” was honored by the institution.
Curry just appeared on PBS Arts Talk with “Pachinko” author Min Jin Lee.
Despite Curry’s relative inactivity on social media, she made a triumphant comeback to share a wintery shot after an absence of over 18 months.
