1. Katherine Bear Tur is an American author, and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News.
13 Facts About Katy Tur
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Katy Tur has reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.
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Katy Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Katy Tur and Marika Gerrard.
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Katy Tur graduated from Brentwood School, and from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.
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Later on, Katy Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team.
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In 2009, Katy Tur joined NBC's local station in New York City, WNBC-TV, and then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level.
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Katy Tur was NBC News's and MSNBC's embedded reporter on the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign.
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At an event in Florida, Katy Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, verbally harassed.
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In 2017, Katy Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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Katy Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article for Marie Claire.
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From 2006 to 2009, Katy Tur was in a relationship with then-MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster Keith Olbermann who openly claims to have edited and even written many of her news reports, as well as advising many of her career choices, paying off her student loans, and the rent to her apartment for a year after they separated.
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Katy Tur married Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent for CBS News, on October 27,2017, in Utah.
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Katy Tur had a falling out with one of her parents, Zoey Katy Tur, and the two did not speak for several years.