Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 14  March 27, 2000

‘Today’ Anchor Ann Curry Will Be Savitch Speaker Ann Curry, the news anchor for NBC’s Today show, will give a free public presentation as this year’s Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series speaker in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Curry, who is also an Emmy Award–winning reporter, will speak on "The Power of Journalism: A Reporter’s Notebook" on Thursday, April 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium. Curry has been a member of the Today team since March of 1997, anchoring the show’s news segments. She also anchors MSNBC’s prime-time newsmagazine Special Edition, contributes reports to Dateline NBC, coanchors Dateline International on NBC Europe, and is a substitute anchor for the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. Curry had been scheduled to give the Savitch lecture at the College last year but was given a last-minute assignment to travel to the Balkans, becoming the first network news anchor to report from the scene of the refugee crisis in Kosovo. As a reporter at KCBS television in Los Angeles, Curry won Emmy Awards for her coverage of the 1987 California earthquake and of a gas-pipeline explosion in San Bernardino. She was named Chicago correspondent for NBC News in 1990, and from 1991 until 1996 she was the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise. Curry is a four-time recipient of the Golden Mike award. She has received several Associated Press certificates of excellence and an NAACP award for excellence in reporting. A member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she holds a degree from the University of Oregon School of Journalism. The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series honors the 1968 Ithaca College graduate who became an Emmy Award–winning NBC News anchor and correspondent.

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