Katy Tur Biography
Katy Tur is a renowned American author and broadcast journalist who is currently 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.
Katy attended Brentwood School where she graduated in 2001. She then graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy in 2005.
Before joining NBC News, Tur reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. Later on, Katy to work as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network’s VORTEX2 team.
Katy Tur NBC News
In 2009, Katy joined NBC’s local station in New York City, WNBC-TV. She then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. That same year, Tur was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. At NBC, Katy also covered the death of Cory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
In her 18 months covering the 2016 presidential election, Tur conducted multiple in-depth interviews with then-candidate Donald Trump from his campaign headquarters. She toured 40 states and logged nearly 4,000 live television appearances.
In 2017, Katy received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for her reporting on the election. Before joining the NBC political team in 2016, Tur was a foreign correspondent based in London for NBC News. Katy joined NBC News in 2012 and was initially based in New York.
Prior to that, Tur worked for WNBC, The Weather Channel, WPIX, and News12 Brooklyn.
In September 2017, Katy 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.
Katy Tur Age
How old is Katy Tur? Katy is 39 years old as of 2022. She was born on October 26, 1983, in Los Angeles, California, the United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on October 26th every year.
Katy Tur Husband
Katy is married to her longtime boyfriend, Tony Dokoupil, a renowned correspondent working for CBS News. The couple exchanged their vows on October 27, 2017, in Utah. Tony and Tur welcomed their son, Teddy in early 2019. She is also a stepmother to Dokoupil’s two children from a previous relationship.
Katy Tur Family
Katty is the daughter of Hannah Zoey Tur (mother)and Marika Gerrard(father). However, her parents divorced in 2003. Tur has a young brother James Tur, a medical student. Tur is of Jewish descent.
In June 2013, Katy came out as transgender and in 2014, she revealed that she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy. In August 2014, she applied to a court to change her name and gender marker from male to female.
Katy Tur’s Height
Tur stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 2 inches (Approx. 1.57m) tall.
Katy Tur Net Worth
Tur has an estimated net worth of $4 million. Her income is mainly attributed to her career as a broadcast journalist.
Katy Tur Salary
Tur receives an annual salary of approximately $70,200. This is according to NBC News journalists’ salaries.
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