Katy Tur

Katy Tur
Tur at South by Southwest, 2017
Born	Katherine Bear Tur (1983-10-26) October 26, 1983 (age 41) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Santa Barbara (BA)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, news anchor
Years active	2005–present
Employer	NBCUniversal
Spouse	Tony Dokoupil ​ (m. 2017)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Marika Gerrard Zoey Tur

Katherine Bear Tur^[1] (/ˈtɜːr/; 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, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports.^[2][3] She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.^[4]

Early life

Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001),^[5] and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.^[6][7] She is of Jewish descent.^[8][9]

Career

Tur reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York.^[10] Later on, Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team.^[11]

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.^[10] 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.^[12]

Trump campaign correspondent

Tur was NBC News's and MSNBC's embedded reporter on the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign.^[13] As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about the Access Hollywood tape that the network had in its possession, featuring Trump's remarks about women in a conversation with Billy Bush.^[14]

On several occasions during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press.^[15] At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, verbally harassed.^[16] According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, "[Trump] didn't mean it in any malicious way",^[17] and he did not want anyone to attack or harass her.^[18]

In 2017, Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.^[19]

Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article for Marie Claire.^[20] In September 2017, she published a book, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, recounting her experience in covering Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.^[21][22] The book spent several weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.^[23]

Personal life

From 2006 to 2009, Tur was in a relationship with then-MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster Keith Olbermann who openly claims to have edited and even written many of her new reports, as well as advising many of her career choices, paying off her student loans, and the rent to her apartment for a year after they separated.^[10] Tur married Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent for CBS News, on October 27, 2017, in Utah.^[24][25] Together they have a son, born in April 2019,^[26] and a daughter, born in May 2021.^[27] She also has two stepchildren from Dokoupil's first marriage.^[28]

She is fluent in Spanish.^[12]

Tur had a falling out with one of her parents, Zoey Tur, and the two did not speak for several years.^[29] In her 2022 book Rough Draft: A Memoir, Tur details her parents' achievements, as well as her relationship with them while being raised as the daughter of "parents as broadcast pioneers who often put themselves in harm's way".^[30]

Bibliography

• Unbelievable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History (Dey Street, 2017)
• Rough Draft: A Memoir (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)

See also

• New Yorkers in journalism

References

1. "October 15, 2018". The Beat with Ari Melber. October 15, 2018. MSNBC. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
2. "Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC". MSNBC. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023.
3. "Katy Tur Reports". Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
4. "Katy Tur bio". WNBC-TV New York. Archived from the original on August 11, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
5. "Chasing Politics in front of the camera". Brentwood Magazine: 49. Spring 2016.
6. "MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Finds His Niche as a Bush-Bashing Hero for Lefties". Nymag.com. April 16, 2007. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
7. "'Trust' - Fun Stars Enjoy Love Fest". NY Daily News. New York. August 9, 2006. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
8. Solomon, Daniel J. (December 12, 2016). "Meet the Jewish Transgender Reporter Ben Shapiro Mocked at Yeshiva U." Jewish Daily Forward. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
9. Abramovitch, Seth (July 1, 2016). "The World According to Zoey Tur: An Interview With the Breakout Star of 'O.J.: Made in America'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2018. Is the family Jewish? We're Jewish in culture, but not really observant.
10. Torregrosa, Luisita (June 10, 2017). "'You Can't Rattle Her': Katy Tur on the Rise". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
11. "Olbermann's Girlfriend Katy Tur Joins The Weather Channel". Mediabistro.com. May 11, 2009. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
12. "Katy Tur". Reporters Info. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
13. "Katy Tur | The FRONTLINE Interviews: Trump's Road to the White House". PBS. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
14. Abramson, Jill (September 12, 2017). "A Memoir by Donald Trump's Favorite Target". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of alerting the Trump campaign to the now notorious "Access Hollywood" tape.....
15. Gross, Terry (September 12, 2017). "Reporter Katy Tur Shares Her 'Front-Row' View Of The Trump Campaign". NPR. Archived from the original on January 22, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
16. Rebecca Shapiro (November 3, 2016). "Trump Creepily Singles Out Reporter At Florida Rally (Again)". Huffington Post.
17. Char Adams (November 3, 2016). "#ImWithTur: Journalists Rally Behind NBC News' Katy Tur After Trump Singles Her Out to Taunting Crowd in Florida". People. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
18. Rebecca Shapiro (November 3, 2016). "Trump Creepily Singles Out Reporter At Florida Rally (Again)". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
19. "Jorge Ramos, Jake Tapper, and Katy Tur Will Each Receive 2017 Walter Cronkite Award". TV Newser. March 17, 2017. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
20. Katie Tur (August 10, 2016). "My Crazy Year with Trump". Marie Claire. Archived from the original on August 11, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
21. Lozada, Carlos (September 12, 2017). "Katy Tur's insider memoir chronicles the Trump campaign — and the indignities of reporting while female". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
22. Tur, Katy (2017). Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History. New York: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-062-68492-9. OCLC 981577557.
23. "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction". The New York Times. October 21, 2017. Archived from the original on December 27, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
24. Tur, Katy [@KatyTurNBC] (February 12, 2017). "Odds on @tonydokoupil and me making it out still engaged?" (Tweet). Retrieved December 6, 2019 – via Twitter.
25. "The Morning After: Impact of Trump's immigration order -- Inside Koch World and the Alfalfa Dinner -- Sunday Best -- Katy Tur is Engaged -- B'day: Paul Ryan". Politico. January 2017. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
26. Vivinetto, Gina (April 16, 2019). "MSNBC's Katy Tur welcomes first child — see the sweet photo". TODAY.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
27. Mastrangelo, Dominick (May 17, 2021). "Katy Tur announces birth of second child". The Hill. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
28. Mizoguchi, Karen (April 16, 2019). "MSNBC Live's Katy Tur Welcomes Son Theodore with Husband Tony Dokoupil — See His First Photo". People. Archived from the original on April 10, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
29. Hod, Itay (June 13, 2017). "NBC's Katy Tur Slammed by Transgender Parent: 'She's Transphobic'". TheWrap. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
30. "In her new memoir Katy Tur writes "Rough Draft" of her parents' story". CBS Sunday Morning. CBS News. June 12, 2022. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.

External links

• Katy Tur on Twitter
• Katy Tur at IMDb