Ann Curry Could Leave NBC News Next Year: THR
People within NBC News expect that Ann Curry's current
contract with the network will be her last, the Hollywood Reporter's Marisa
Guthrie wrote on
Wednesday.
Curry was handed her own reporting unit and a hefty
paycheck when she wasousted from
"Today" in 2012. Though she has gotten some major exclusives
recently—such as her one-on-one interview with
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani—she has been a relatively little-seen presence
on NBC since she was taken off the morning show, and, with the cancellation of
"Rock Center," there is not much room at the network for the kinds of
long-form international reporting she seemed most inclined to pursue.
Guthrie
wrote that "NBC News insiders do not expect Curry to stay at the division
at the conclusion of her deal," which expires early in 2014.
Curry's
departure might cause some headaches for NBC, but it would also bring a kind of
closure to a painfully public soap opera that, in some senses, is still
haunting the network. Curry has remained resolutely silent since her exit from
"Today"; saying farewell could allow her to speak out and move on in
a way she has not been able to while still at NBC.
What is
far less clear is where she would go; Guthrie wrote that CBS News is not
interested, for instance.
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