VI. NETWORKING

1) Say how far you agree with the statement “society tends to look on tall people as more powerful and smarter”?

2) Try to justify an opposite viewpoint that vertically challenged people achieve more in their lives. Surf the Internet and find certain examples.

Category	Person	Achievement	Height/weigh
Historic figure
Politics
Show business
Acting

JOURNALISTIC PORTFOLIO: NEWS ANCHOR

Ann Curry is the news anchor of NBC News’ TODAY, America’s No. 1 morning news program, and the anchor of “Dateline NBC,” the network’s award-winning newsmagazine. Curry joined TODAY in March of 1997, and in May 2005, she was named co-anchor of “Dateline NBC.” Curry also regularly substitute-anchors on “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.”

Curry has distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting, frequently traveling to remote areas for under-reported stories. Between March 2006 and March 2007, she traveled three times to Sudan to report on the violence and ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur and Chad. While there, she provided in-depth reports on victims of the deadly conflict in that region, and conducted exclusive interviews with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President.

In spring 2008, Curry broadcast live from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she reported on the horrific struggles of the women and children of the city of Goma. In 2008 she also traveled to Serbia, where she examined the deplorable conditions of Serbia’s mental institutions. Curry was the first network news anchor to report on the humanitarian refugee crisis caused by the genocide in Kosovo in 1999, reporting for NBC News from Albania and Macedonia.

Curry has conducted numerous exclusive interviews with world leaders and dignitaries, including a one-on-one with Dalai Lama during his trip to the U.S. amid violence in Tibet in April 2008, and a sit-down with former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto just two months before her assassination in December 2007. Curry also talked to Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari in his first-ever interview with an American news organization.

In July 2006, Curry reported on the Israel-Lebanon war, one of the only American reporters to file stories on both sides of the conflict. In summer 2005, Curry traveled throughout Africa with then-first lady Laura Bush to examine the continent’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, women's rights and education.

Curry was the first network news anchor to report from inside the tsunami zone in Southeast Asia. For TODAY, Curry has extensively examined the effects of climate change, traveling to Antarctica and the South Pole in November 2007, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in November 2008.

In weeks following the attacks of September 11, Curry reported live from ground zero every day. When the U.S. bombed Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in November 2001, she reported extensively from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, and landed the first exclusive interview with the war’s military commander, General Tommy Franks.

Curry has earned four Emmy Awards, four Golden Mikes, several Associated Press Certificates of Excellence, two Gracie Allen Awards, and an award for Excellence in Reporting from the NAACP. In June 2007, Curry was honored with the Simon Wiesenthal Medal of Valor for her extensive reporting in Darfur. She has been awarded by Americares, Save the Children, the Anti-Defamation League as a Woman of Achievement, and the Asian American Journalists Association, receiving its National Journalism Award in 2003. She has also won numerous awards for her charity work, primarily for breast cancer research.

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