Journalist Ann Curry On Dramatic Reunions, #MeToo, and 'Today'

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🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ann Curry, journalist and former host of Today on NBC, hosts a new PBS series called We'll Meet Again, documenting dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. She talks to Sam about the series, the MeToo movement, and the reunion story in her own life. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, it's been a minute.
0:07.8	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:09.4	Every week we have a conversation with one person or on one topic.
0:14.2	This week, journalist and curry.
0:16.6	She is out with a new show, Tuesdays on PBS.
0:19.0	It is called Will Meet Again.
0:21.2	And it focuses on finding and reuniting people who have had brief, deep bonds at some time
0:27.5	or another during their lives.
0:30.1	So Ann has been a journalist for 40 years.
0:33.1	She spent 15 plus years working on NBC's Today Show.
0:37.8	So I had to ask her what it was like to work there with Matt Lauer.
0:42.3	Lauer was fired last year amid sexual harassment allegations.
0:46.1	And you might recall, and curry was forced out of her job co-anchoring that show about
0:50.8	five years ago.
0:52.1	Because execs at NBC reportedly thought that she and Lauer lacked on-screen chemistry.
0:58.8	There's a lot in this conversation.
1:01.3	And curry goes deep.
1:02.5	Enjoy it.
1:03.5	I have watched a few of the episodes of your new series.
1:16.2	And I feel like in the kind of news cycles that we've been in, it's so heartening
1:22.1	to see some feel good.
1:24.1	Oh, thanks for saying we were getting that kind of feedback.
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