Ann Curry is an American journalist and photojournalist, who has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo and the Central African Republic. Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powerful' list, credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes. For NBC, she became the program's news anchor since March of 1997 until becoming co-anchor in June of 2012. She was also co-anchor of Today from June 9th, 2011 to June 28th 2012 and the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011. On January 13th, 2015, it was announced that Curry would be leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years.
History with the Macy's Parade[]
She only hosted the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2011 before being replaced by one the current hosts, Savannah Guthrie for next year.