Katy Tur Biography
Katy Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist who works as an NBC News correspondent. Tur anchors MSNBC Live and has reported for NBC news outlets including Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, WNBC-TV, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel.
How old is Katy Tur? – Age
Tur is 38 years old as of 26 October 2021. She was born in 1983 in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Her real name is Katherine Bear Tur.
Does Katy Tur have siblings? – Family – Education
Tur is the daughter of Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard, both journalists. She graduated from Brentwood School in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. She is of Jewish ancestry. She has a brother named James Tur.
Is Katy Tur still married? – Husband
Tur was in a relationship with then-MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster Keith Olbermann from 2006 to 2009. Tur married Tony Dokoupil, a CBS News correspondent, on October 27, 2017, in Utah. On December 13, 2018, she announced that she was expecting their first child together. On April 13, 2019, she gave birth to a son. Dokoupil’s first marriage resulted in two stepchildren for her. She announced that she was expecting her second child in January 2021. On May 13, 2021, she gave birth to a daughter.
Katy Tur Career
Tur has worked as a reporter for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. Tur later worked for The Weather Channel as a storm chaser on the network’s VORTEX2 team. Tur joined NBC’s local station in New York City, WNBC-TV, in 2009, and quickly advanced to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. That year, she received the Associated Press’ Best Spot News Award for her coverage of the Upper East Side of Manhattan crane collapse in March 2008. She covered the death of Cory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 while at NBC News.
Tur worked as an embedded reporter for NBC News and MSNBC during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Tur, an NBC reporter, was tasked with informing the Trump campaign about an Access Hollywood tape containing Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush about women that the network had in its possession.
During his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press on several occasions. Tur was booed and verbally harassed by Trump supporters at a Florida event, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, “[Trump] didn’t mean it maliciously” and didn’t want anyone to attack or harass her. Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2017.
In an article for Marie Claire, Tur reflected on her experiences covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies. Tur published Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History in September 2017, recounting her experience covering Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The book was on the New York Times Best Seller list for several weeks.
What is Katy Tur salary?
She earns an annual salary of $1 Million.
Katy Tur Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.