Katy Tur
Katy Tur
Katy Tur | |
|---|---|
| Born | Katharine Bear Tur[1] October 26, 1983[2] Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brentwood School |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara(BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist, news anchor |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Employer | NBCUniversal |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Dokoupil (m.2017) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur |
Katharine Bear Tur (born October 26, 1983)[1] is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC Live and has reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, WNBC-TV, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel.[3]
Katy Tur | |
|---|---|
| Born | Katharine Bear Tur[1] October 26, 1983[2] Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brentwood School |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara(BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist, news anchor |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Employer | NBCUniversal |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Dokoupil (m.2017) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur |
Early life
Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001),[4] and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.[5][6] She is of Jewish descent on Zoey's side.[7][8]
Career
Tur reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York.[2][9] Later on, Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team.[10]
NBC News
In 2009, Tur joined NBC's local station in New York City, WNBC-TV, and then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level.[2] That year she was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. While at NBC News, she covered the death of Cory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.[11]
Covering the Trump campaign
Tur was the network's embedded reporter for the Donald Trump presidential campaign. As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about the Access Hollywood tape featuring Trump's conversation with Billy Bush about women, that NBC possessed.[12]
On several occasions during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press. At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, verbally harassed.[13] According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, "[Trump] didn't mean it in any malicious way",[14] and he did not want anyone to attack or harass her.[15]
In 2017, Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.[16]
Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article for Marie Claire.[17] In September 2017, Tur published a book, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, recounting her experience in covering the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[18][19]
Personal life
Tur had a falling out with her transgender parent, Zoey Tur, and the two did not speak for several years.[25]
Tur is a fan of the jam band Phish, often making references to the band and incorporating their lyrics into her reporting.[26]
Tur is fluent in Spanish.[11]
See also
New Yorkers in journalism