He has won nine New York Emmy Awards at YES, including two in 2023: one in the Commentator/Editorialist category and one for his work as part of YES’ Yankees Pre-Game coverage. He earned three Emmy nominations in 2025 as a member of the YES teams that earned nominations for their Yankees coverage.

Curry hosts an exclusive podcast on The Gotham Sports App, Yankees News & Views, that features interviews with Yankees players, additional key team personnel and celebrities.

Since November 2005, Curry has been a regular contributor to YES’ Yankees Hot Stove show. His television experience extends back to 1991, when he began contributing to Madison Square Garden Network’s Yankees pre-game show and weekly baseball magazine show.

He has also hosted YES’ Yankees Access specials, which give viewers exclusive, off-the-field, behind-the-scenes looks at some of the most popular Yankees players. He has traveled to the Dominican Republic and Taiwan to report on Yankee feature stories, international travel atypical of regional sports networks.

While at YES, Curry also hosted JCTV: Jack Curry TV, the innovative YESNetwork.com original series which featured interviews with some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, and the media.

Curry has written or co-written four New York Times best-selling books: The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Team in Baseball History, published in May 2023; he collaborated in 2022 with YES colleague Paul O’Neill on a book entitled A Swing And A Hit; in 2019, he collaborated on a book with another YES colleague, David Cone, called Full Count: The Education Of A Pitcher; and in 2000 he co-wrote a book with Derek Jeter entitled The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams.

Curry joined The New York Times in 1987 and became the Yankees beat writer in 1991. He was a national baseball writer at the newspaper from 1998 until December of 2009. While at The Times, Curry authored more than 4,500 articles, covering 18 World Series, 11 All-Star Games, 10 MLB Winter Meetings and 2 World Baseball Classics. The New Jersey native also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting at The Times in 1999 for co-writing a series on the demise of New York high school sports, and won multiple Publisher Awards at The Times, monthly awards that recognize the best journalism at the paper. Curry has also been the chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

In 2024, Curry was announced as an inductee into the Irish Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2013, Curry received the Broadcast Achievement Award from the New Jersey Sports Writers Association. Also, that year, he was named “Top Sports Analyst” by the New Jersey-based 201 Magazine.

Curry is a 1986 graduate of Fordham University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications.