On Monday, NBC announced changes involving, from left, Meredith Vieira, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Natalie Morales and Al Roker. Monday on NBC's "Today," Meredith Vieira made an emotional announcement that she will leave the morning show in June, with Ann Curry taking over as co- anchor. NBC confirmed today (Monday) that Meredith Vieira will be leaving as co-host of the Today show and that Ann Curry will replace her as co-anchor and Natalie Morales will move into Curry's position as the show's principal news reader. Savannah Guthrie is due... In your wheezing Monday media column: Matt Drudge lives, the WaPo union gets cheeky, Robert Lipsyte snipes, CBS cans its _Early Show _producer, Phillippe Dauman is overpaid, and Ann Curry is happy. More » Meredith Vieira announced that she will be stepping down from her co-anchor post on NBC's "Today" in June. Newsreader Ann Curry has been named her successor. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports. Ann Curry, the American journalist who has been announced as Meredith Vieira's successor on the 'Today Show', has thanked Twitter followers for their messages of congratulations. Ann Curry, who will join Matt Lauer on the show in June 2011, currently... Meredith Vieira, the long-time 'Today Show' host, will leave the programme in June 2011. Meredith Vieira, who will take an unspecified new role at the network, will be succeeded by news anchor Ann Curry.The shake-up at Nbc will also see Natalie... Meredith Viera confirmed weeks of rumors by announcing that she'll be leaving NBC's _Today_, to be replaced by the show's longtime n… NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meredith Vieira said on Monday she will leave NBC's Today show in June and will be replaced by the show's news anchor Ann Curry. Meredith Vieira said Monday that she will leave NBC's "Today" show next month to spend more time with her family, and Ann Curry will replace her as host. Longtime "Today" show news anchor Ann Curry will take over as co-anchor of the program in June, succeeding Meredith Vieira, who will take a new role at NBC News. On NBC's _Today_ show this morning, Meredith Vieira confirmed that she will leave the show next month to spend more time with her family and that Ann Curry will replace her as co-host alongside Matt Lauer. Vieira, whose husband, author Richard M. Cohen, has been coping with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer, will make her exit in June, ahead of the September end of her contract. She has been on _Today _for 5 years, having replaced Katie Couric in 2006. "Even as I say this and I know that it's the right thing, I'm really sad," Vieira said. Said Lauer, "(Vieira) has brought class and dignity and talent and a joy of life to this show for the last five years." For Curry, who has been _Today'_s news reader since 1997, this is a promotion 5 years in the making as she was passed over for the top job five years ago but stuck with the show. "I feel like the high school computer nerd who has just been asked to the prom by the quarterback of the football team," Curry said. She will be replaced as news anchor by Natalie Morales, an ... Promoting from within, NBC said that Ann Curry, now the news anchor on "Today," will replace the departing Meredith Vieira as a principal host of the program in June, and Natalie Morales will replace Ms. Curry in the news role. Promoting from within, NBC said that Ann Curry, now the news anchor on "Today," will replace the departing Meredith Vieira as a principal host of the program in June, and Natalie Morales will replace Ms. Curry in the news role.
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