Katy Tur Biography
Katy Tur is an American broadcast journalist and Author currently working at NBC News as a correspondent for Nightly news and also the anchor of Katy Tur Reports. During her time at NBC She has reported for Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the press, the WNBC TV and the weather channel platforms.
Katy Tur’s Age
As of 2023 she is 40 years old as she was born on 26th October 1983 in Los Angeles California, United States. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. She belongs to the Jewish descent.
Katy Tur Height
Talking about Tur’s height she is 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Katy Tur Education
She studied from Brentwood school and graduated in 2001. She then proceeded to University of California, Santa Babra where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 2005.
Katy Tur Parents and Siblings
She was born in a family of journalists as her parents Hannah Zoey and Marika Gerald were journalists and this must have boosted her passion to become a journalist. They were the founders of Los Angeles News Service. Sadly her parents divorced in 2003. She was raised alongside her younger brother James Tur. She had a fallout with her mother of which she stayed for several years without communicating.
Katy Tur Husband and Children
Tur was in a romantic relationship with Keith Olbermann, who was then MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster. However she ended up getting married to Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent for CBS News and the couple tied knots on 27 October 2017 in Utah. They welcomed a son on April 2019 and a daughter on May 2021. Additionally she raises two Dokoupil’s children from his first marriage.
Katy Tur Salary and Net worth
Katy’s annual salary is roughly $1 million while her net worth is estimated to be around $8 million.
Katy Tur NBC Career
The personality joined NBC in 2009. Firstly she worked at NBC’s, local station WNBC-TV then was promoted later to National network level. She was awarded AP’s best spot news award for covering the 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. During the 2016 presidential campaign she was the embedded reporter for President Donald Trump.
In 2017 she was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. During covering Trumps campaigns she was occasionally criticized by Trump. 2017 she published a book named Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History. The book is about the Trump campaign and his treatment towards her and it was the New York Times best seller.
Before joining NBC News she worked at KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York and lastly worked as storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network’s VORTEX2.
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