Katy Tur is an American broadcast journalist, author, and anchor for MSNBC. She is most widely known for her coverage of the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign and for her weekday news program, Katy Tur Reports
Career highlights
- MSNBC Anchor: Tur has anchored daytime news on MSNBC since 2017. Her current program, Katy Tur Reports, airs weekdays at 2 p.m. ET.
- 2016 Trump Campaign: She was a breakout broadcaster during the 2016 election, covering the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for NBC News. This included nearly 4,000 live television appearances.
- Best-selling author: Her experiences covering the Trump campaign are detailed in her 2017 book, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, which became a New York Times best-seller. In 2022, she released her memoir, Rough Draft, which explores her complex family history as the child of pioneering helicopter journalists.
- Award-winning journalism: In 2017, Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.
Personal life and family
Marriage and children: She is married to fellow journalist Tony Dokoupil of CBS News. They have two children together.
Upbringing: She is the daughter of Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard, two pioneering helicopter journalists in Los Angeles who co-founded the Los Angeles News Service.
Personal account in memoir: Tur’s memoir, Rough Draft, shares her complicated childhood and the story of her father’s transition to a woman in 2013.