Ann Curry was named co-anchor for Dateline NBC in May 2005

and news anchor for NBC News’ Today, in March 1997. 

Curry was named NBC News correspondent in August 1990, and "Today" news anchor in May 1997. She has extensive experience in national and international reporting. Curry reported live from ground zero every day in the first two weeks after 9-11.  When the United States bombed Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in November 2001, she reported extensively from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, and landed the first exclusive interview the war's military commander, General Tommy Franks.  Curry reported from Baghdad in the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq, and then from the USS Constellation as the war began, interviewing fighter pilots who flew the first wave of bombing runs over Iraq. She also filed reports from inside Iraq, from Qatar, and Kuwait during the first weeks of the war.

Curry's exclusive interviews also include the first highly sought after interview with Thomas Hamill, the truck driver for Halliburton subsidiary KBR, who escaped captivity in Iraq, the first interview with accused spy Wen Ho Lee after he was cleared of all charges of espionage against the United States, and the first interview with the parents of the McCaughey septuplets. Curry has also repeatedly landed the first exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong after his Tour de France wins. 

After Curry first joined NBC News in August 1990, she became NBC News correspondent in Chicago.  In 1992 she was named anchor of NBC News at Sunrise.  She later helped launch MSNBC and then became news anchor at "Today." 

Before coming to NBC, Curry was a reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles.  In 1981, she was a reporter and anchor for KGW, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Oregon.  She began her broadcasting career as an intern in 1978 at KTVL, in Medford Oregon, near her hometown, rising to become that station's first female news reporter.