Gary Tuchman Biography
Gary Tuchman is a CNN national correspondent based in Atlanta who began his career with the network in 1990. He works as a staff correspondent for Anderson Cooper 360.
How old is Gary Tuchman? – Age
Gary is 60 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1961 in the United States of America.
Gary Tuchman Family – Education
Ronald E. Tuchman, his father, was the CEO of Child World, the second largest toy store in the United States at the time. Tuchman graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism. The university bestowed the Distinguished Alumni Award on him in 2003.
Gary Tuchman Wife
Tuchman married Katherine M. Stark, a graduate of Boston University in a Jewish ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in 1990. In New York, she works as a production manager for a trade magazine. Her father, who is now retired, worked for Chevron International Oil in New York as the manager of marine fuels.
Gary Tuchman Daughter
Lindsay Tuchman, Tuchman’s daughter, is following in her father’s footsteps, beginning her career at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland.
Gary Tuchman Net Worth
Gary has an estimated net worth of $ 1.6 million.
Gary Tuchman Career
Tuchman has covered some of the most important stories of our time during his time at CNN. He arrived in Japan the morning after the devastating earthquake and tsunami and reported from the hardest-hit towns on the country’s northeast coast. He also spent months in Haiti covering the earthquake, which killed over 300,000 people. His live reports from the rubble the morning after the earthquake astounded viewers all over the world, who had no way of knowing the magnitude of the devastation until then. Tuchman was in Copiapo, Chile, between the two quakes, covering the rescue of the 33 Chile miners who had become trapped underground. He broadcast live from the rescue site as the miners were triumphantly rescued.
Tuchman was one of the few international reporters who were able to travel to Iceland earlier in 2010 to report firsthand on the volcanic eruption that forced the cancellation of thousands of flights around the world. Tuchman took a helicopter up to the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano. The video, shot only a few hundred yards to the west, provided viewers with an incredible view of the eruption’s power. Tuchman also reported for the documentary What the Pope Knew for a portion of 2010. The documentary established that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was aware that priests who had committed sexual molestations were being protected by the Church.
Tuchman has also spent a significant amount of time in Mexico’s border regions, reporting on the drug war and the grotesque violence that it entails. He has also done numerous stories on the FLDS, a polygamist cult, and the child sexual abuse that many members of the sect have engaged in.
During the 2008 presidential election, he spent weeks in Alaska researching and covering Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He also spent time on the campaign trail covering both John McCain and Barack Obama. He covered Obama’s inauguration and also provided live reports from one of the inaugural balls that night. Tuchman was one of the few reporters allowed into a coal mine during a search and rescue operation in 2007. The Crandall Canyon mine drama turned out to be tragic. Not only did all of the miners perish, but rescuers were also killed in another collapse days later. Tuchman spent much of the summer and fall of 2005 in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas covering hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
Tuchman reported as an embedded journalist with the United States Air Force during the Iraq war in 2003, arriving days before the conflict began. He also returned to Iraq in 2006, serving on missions with members of the United States Air Force. Tuchman traveled to Afghanistan in 2002, spending weeks reporting across the country. He covered the country’s first “Loya Jirga” since the Taliban’s fall, the traditional way Afghans chose their new leaders. During his time at CNN, he has covered every presidential election in the United States. Tuchman began reporting from Ground Zero in New York City the day after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, providing constant updates and detailed descriptions of the devastation. He also covered the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the D.C.-area sniper case, the anthrax scare, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the capture of the Unabomber.
Tuchman’s reporting most recently contributed to two 2011 Emmy Awards for AC 360’s Haiti earthquake coverage. He was nominated for an Emmy in 2010 for his coverage of a Texas police officer stealing from minority motorists. Tuchman’s reporting also helped him win a George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill, a Peabody Award in 2009 for coverage of the Presidential Primary contests, a Peabody Award in 2005 for Hurricane Katrina coverage, and an Emmy Award in 1996 for coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Tuchman spent five years as an anchor and reporter at WPEC-TV, the CBS affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he specialized in political reporting, before joining CNN. Tuchman worked at WPEC-TV and produced a series about the Intifada from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Tuchman previously worked as the primary anchor and reporter for WBOC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Salisbury, Maryland. While at WPEC-TV, Tuchman received several Associated Press awards for excellence in documentary, enterprise, and spot news reporting.