Katy Tur
Katherine Bear
Tur was born on October 26, 1983. She is an American journalist, author, and
broadcast journalist, who works as a NBC News correspondent. Tur is anchor for
MSNBC Reports which, since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports, which airs
between 2:00 and 3:00 pm ET on weekdays on MSNBC. Tur also covers MSNBC's news
outlets Early Today, Today and MSNBC Nightly News. Tur is the daughter of
journalist Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She attended Brentwood School (2001)
and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. She is of Jewish descent. Tur was a reporter
for KTLA. HD News/Cablevision. News 12 Brooklyn. WPIX-TV. Fox 5 New York. Tur
then became a storm chaser for The Weather Channel's VORTEX2 staff. Tur began
her career in 2009 at WNBC-TV in an NBC New York City local station. She was
then promoted to the flagship NBC News network. In the year 2009 she was
awarded AP's Best Spot News Award for coverage of the collapse of the crane
that occurred in March in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. For NBC News she
covered Cory Monteith's funeral, a motorcycle attack on an SUV , and the search
to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tur was the NBC News and MSNBC's embedded
reporter during the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign.
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