Update: NBC & Ann Curry Officially Part Ways

Today, NBC News and award-winning anchor and correspondent Ann Curry announced that she is leaving the network as a full-time employee to begin a new relationship with NBCUniversal that allows her the freedom to report on any platform and on any network, including NBC News, as well as any online or "over the top" channels. In addition, Curry is developing a media startup, to include a reporting and content venture seeded by NBCUniversal that will focus on incubating and producing content of national and global importance with a multi-platform distribution approach.

"This is about reaching for the edge of the future in journalism, which we know is undergoing an irrevocable transition. I am excited about working to become a valuable link between traditional media and what is to come," Curry said.
Curry continued, "In today's world of fragmented media, this is the time to seize the opportunity to improve the way we distribute and even tell stories. I want to expand my drive to give voice to the voiceless to emerging platforms and produce both scripted and non-scripted content, in addition to continuing to report on-air about stories that matter."

Curry has appeared as both an anchor and a correspondent on NBC News for nearly 25 years, with groundbreaking journalism on climate change, Darfur, U.S. relations with Iran, and American military veterans. But it is her reporting about the world's most vulnerable people that has most defined her work.

"I am sincerely grateful to NBC News for allowing me to offer viewers a vast and diverse body of work, including a depth of humanitarian reporting I understand still resonates. It has been a privilege to work with so many good and talented people at the network and I look forward to what we will do ahead. At the same time, I can't wait to expand my reach and work with people I admire in other places," Curry said.

"We're proud to support Ann in her new venture, and we look forward to more of her exceptional storytelling," said Pat Fili-Krushel, Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group. "She is committed to uncovering critical issues, humanizing them, and ultimately helping viewers understand and connect."

Curry was a regular on the Today Show for nearly 15 years and has also reported many of the important stories of our time, including the wars affecting Syria, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Serbia, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq. She has reported from North Korea and Iran, and covered numerous humanitarian disasters, including the tsunamis in Japan and Southeast Asia, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter (@AnnCurry) is credited for helping to speed the arrival of humanitarian planes. Curry has scored a long list of exclusive and groundbreaking interviews, which have included U.S. Presidents George Prescott Bush, Bill Clinton, George Walker Bush and Barack Obama as well as Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush; 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; 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 the Dalai Lama, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the McCaughey Septuplets, among others.

Curry has won numerous awards for her journalism. They include Edward R. Murrow awards, Gracie Allen Awards, National Headliner Awards, a Matrix from New York Women in Communications, an Excellence in Reporting award from the NAACP, and seven national Emmys, among others. She has also been given numerous humanitarian awards, including from Refugees International, Americares, Save the Children, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which awarded her a Medal of Valor, for her dedication to reporting about genocide.

Photo by: Andrew Eccles/NBC

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