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A Fireside Chat with Ann Curry
Seven-time Emmy Award-winning journalist ANN CURRY discusses her storied career, journalistic legacy, and what it takes to be brave. Curry’s CV stretches from her years as a hotel maid to reporting from war-torn corners of the globe. In this peek into her world, Curry shares stories that will inspire your audience to lead a passionate and bold life.
Compassion, Empathy, and Leadership
Seven-time Emmy Award-winning journalist ANN CURRY touches on leadership through compassion and empathy. As an interviewer, Curry’s leadership in kindness and respect empowers her subjects to tell their most earth-shattering stories. In this conversation, Curry teaches audiences how to make a first impression that can change the world.
The Opportunities in Community
Seven-time Emmy-winning journalist ANN CURRY has been open about the hardships of “Witnessing Humanity” since her viral TED talk, but remains optimistic about our collective future. In this uplifting conversation, Curry reflects on the power of community in improving lives and building brighter futures.
Women Making History: The Ann Curry Difference
Seven-time Emmy-winning journalist ANN CURRY provides audiences with a presence of hope and optimism. Connecting with her interview subjects, Curry’s reporting focuses on recovery, rebuilding, and reimagining a better tomorrow. Curry’s stories from the field invigorate us to be more fearless, inspiring audiences to live a bold life. Here are some host takeaways:
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Ann Curry inspires future doctors at USC’s medical school commencement
Seven-time Emmy-winning journalist ANN CURRY drew on stories of her time as an NBC News network anchor and international correspondent to inspire graduating students at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. Referencing her own experiences facing global war, illness, and poverty as a journalist, Curry touched the hearts of future medical practitioners with a message of empathy, compassion, and persistence. Donna Elliott, MD, EdD, Vice Dean of Medical Education said that Curry’s speech was crafted to “inspire all of our students as they embark on their medical careers.”
Award-winning journalist Ann Curry, a former NBC Network news anchor and international correspondent, has reported on conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Serbia, Lebanon, and Israel; on nuclear tensions from North Korea; and Iran and on numerous humanitarian disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan, and the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter (@AnnCurry) is credited for helping to speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.
She has contributed groundbreaking journalism on climate change, interviewing scientists and native peoples, documenting glacial melt in the Arctic, the Antarctic (where she spent time inside an expedition hut left by Shackleton) and on Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as documenting the deepening drought in the American West. Ann is also known for her focused reporting from inside Iran, giving voice to its women, human rights activists and young people, including Green Revolution activists. She also first broke the news of Iran's interest in negotiating a nuclear agreement with the outside world.
For her stories, Ann has also traveled to the South Pole, (where she delivered the first live network news report to an American audience,) South Africa and Botswana (where she tracked the AIDS epidemic), Somalia and Kenya (where she documented Al Qaeda's link to Al-Shabaab terrorists), as well to Syria, Chad, Liberia, Pakistan, and more.
Ann has conducted a long list of exclusive and news breaking interviews, which have included Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, President Ahmadinejad, President Khatami and Foreign Minister Zarif; Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and First Lady Asma al-Assad; Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, President Ali Zadari and President Musharraf; Turkey's President Erdogan; Saddam Hussein's close advisor and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, Sudan's President Omar Bashir and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir; Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Chad's President Idriss Deby; as well as U.S. Presidents George Prescott Bush, Bill Clinton, George Walker Bush and Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, U.S. Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton as well as First Lady Laura Bush, Jill Biden, Ukraine’s first Lady Olena Zelenska, UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and António Gutteres, the Dalai Lama, Sir Edmund Hillary, George Clooney, Maya Angelou, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among many others.
She has also reported and executive produced a twelve-hour documentary series about transformative world events for PBS, We’ll Meet Again, and anchored and executive produced a groundbreaking live series with Lionsgate about medical care in America, Chasing the Cure, which connected long-suffering patients with top physicians nationwide and led to breakthrough diagnoses that changed lives.
She has written for National Geographic Magazine about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the Dalai Lama, taught journalism ethics and war and humanitarian reporting as a fellow at American University and speaks regularly, including a TedTalk about trust, compassion, and journalism.
Ann has won numerous awards for journalism, including 7 national news Emmys and many Edward R. Murrow awards, Gracie Allen Awards, and National Headliner Awards. The NAACP has honored her with an Excellence in Reporting award. Women in Communications has awarded her a Matrix. The Centre for Responsible Leadership honored her for Truth in Media. In 2022, she was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award. Ann has also been given numerous humanitarian awards, including from Refugees International, Americares, Save the Children, and most recently, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Global Citizenship. An award she especially prizes is a Medal of Valor from the Simon Wiesenthal Center for her dedication to reporting about genocide.
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