13 Facts About Matt Gutman

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Matt Gutman was born on December 5,1977 and is an American reporter for ABC News.

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Matt Gutman is the network's Chief National Correspondent and appears on various programs for the network.

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Matt Gutman was the host of the US weekly TV series Sea Rescue when it ended in September 2018.

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Matt Gutman is the author of the book, The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand about the international rescue of the soccer team from a cave in Thailand in July 2018.

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Matthew A Gutman was born on December 5,1977, in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Matt Gutman started as a freelance reporter in Argentina in late 2000.

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Matt Gutman's first published article was for the now-defunct English-language Buenos Aires Daily.

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8.

Matt Gutman then worked for the Jerusalem Post based in Israel from 2001 to 2005 covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Matt Gutman worked for USA Today before joining ABC News Radio in 2006.

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Matt Gutman lived in the Middle East for nearly eight years, covering most major conflicts, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon, and filing dispatches from nearly every country in the region.

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Matt Gutman has filed reports from more than 40 countries for ABC News over the past decade.

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In January 2020, Matt Gutman was suspended by ABC News for incorrectly reporting that, during the death of Kobe Bryant in the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, all four of Bryant's children had died when only Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna "Gigi" was on board the helicopter and perished in the crash.

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However, in February 2021, Matt Gutman was briefly subjected to an additional suspension after allegedly violating Covid-19 company policy when visiting a Los Angeles hospital during the pandemic.