(Depleted from a tough reporting assignment overseas, Curry once spaced out during a broadcast, greeting the audience three times instead of just once.)Ī newshound at heart, Curry-who has won seven Emmys and other prestigious awards for her reporting, including the Medal of Valor from the Simon Wiesenthal Center-is obsessed with the truth.
“Good morning, good morning, good morning” is a reference to one of her onscreen gaffes, which became a fixation for Today critics. And yet, when receiving a compliment, Curry finds a way to temper her reaction with a self-deprecating aside, lest she be perceived as bitter or gossipy. So much so that even in a pandemic, her fans are still ruminating on her untimely departure. In her time at NBC, Curry became an icon for viewers like Peters, who valued the air of old-school journalistic nobility she lent Today. With Today show cohosts Katie Couric, Al Roker, and Matt Lauer. Good morning, good morning, good morning Adam.”
I will admit you made me laugh, which is esp. I’d run into fire for her, drive her around as she eggs NBC execs, or work for her presidential campaign.” Curry retweets the message with a grateful note: “Ok. was royally screwed & deserves the most epic comeback of all time. “I’ve had much time to reflect during this COVID-19 crisis & I keep coming back to one thing,” a user named Adam Peters posts on Twitter. On March 17, the week most of the United States grinds to an ominous, screeching halt, Curry finds reason to laugh amid all the bleakness on her timeline.
What is it that we have to do to survive this together? It’s better than overeating out of worry.” “But I would love to be involved in making sure the right questions are asked. “It’s not as if I want to be on TV talking about this stuff,” Curry assures me. It’s not exactly the gilded celebrity pedestal she once occupied, but like everything Curry does, it’s earnest, honest work. Instead, Ann Curry, the former cohost of the Today show, is spending the COVID-19 shutdown in her Connecticut home, where she’s been in quarantine with her husband, tweeting.Ĭurry has always been more of a hard-news reporter than a TV personality, and she’s used her days at home trying to pinpoint the most verifiable information about the pandemic to disseminate to her 1.5 million followers. During one of the biggest news events in history, one of America’s most prominent television journalists is not in the newsroom.
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