Katy Tur Biography – Katy Tur Wiki
Katy Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist. She works as a correspondent for NBC News and also anchors for MSNBC Live and has also done reports for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, WNBC-TV, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel. In the past, she has been a reporter for News 12 Brooklyn, KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. Later on, she served as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network’s VORTEX2 team.
She joined NBC’s local station in New York City, WNBC-TV in 2009, and then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. 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. She was the NBC News and MSNBC’s embedded reporter for the Donald Trump presidential campaign. As a reporter for NBC, she was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about the Access Hollywood tape featuring Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush about women that the network had in possession.
On several occasions during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press. At an event in Florida, she was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, verbally harassed. According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, “[Trump] didn’t mean it in any malicious way”, and he did not want anyone to attack or harass her. She reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article for Marie Claire. In September 2017, she 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. The book spent several weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
She is a fan of the jam band Phish, and has occasionally made reference to the band and has incorporated their lyrics into her reporting. She is fluent in Spanish. In 2017, she became a recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.
Katy Tur Age
She was born Katharine Bear Tur on October 6, 1983 in Los Angeles County, California, United States. She is partially of Jewish descent.
Katy Tur Husband
She is married to her husband, Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent for CBS News. They got married on October 27, 2017, in Utah.
Katy Tur Children
She has two children. She announced that she was pregnant with her and Dokoupil’s first child together on December 13, 2018. She gave birth to her son, Teddy Dokoupil on April 13, 2019. She also has two stepchildren from Dokoupil’s first marriage. In January 2021, she revealed that she is pregnant with her second child due in May of 2021. Her daughter Eloise Judy Bear Dokoupil was born on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
Katy Tur Parents
She is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard.
Katy Tur Height
She has a formally listed height of 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 meters) tall.
Katy Tur Instagram
Katy Tur’s Instagram account is @katyturnbc.
