1. Matt Gutman was born on December 5,1977 and is an American author and reporter for ABC News.
15 Facts About Matt Gutman
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Matt Gutman was the host of the US weekly TV series Sea Rescue when it ended in September 2018 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series in 2016.
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Matthew A Gutman was born on December 5,1977 in Princeton, New Jersey.
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On September 25,1990 Gutman's father, Paul, was killed in a small plane crash in Georgia when Gutman was 12 years old.
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Matt Gutman attended Newark Academy, where he was honored as a scholar-athlete football player.
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Matt Gutman started as a freelance print 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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In mid 2001, Matt Gutman moved to Tel Aviv during the peak of the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada and 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, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon, filing dispatches from nearly every country in the region.
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Matt Gutman was named ABC News' Chief National Correspondent in January 2018.
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Matt Gutman would consult therapists and shamans, trying everything from group treatment and CBT to ayahuasca and psilocybin.
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In January 2020, Matt Gutman was suspended for a month 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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Matt Gutman's book indicates that experience served as a jumping off point "for a personal journey into the science and treatment of panic attacks," which his book says he has suffered for decades.
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In February 2021, Matt Gutman was again suspended from ABC News for a short time for violating Disney COVID-19 policies after visiting a Los Angeles hospital for newsgathering purposes without the advanced permission of ABC News management.