Katy Tur Net Worth

What Is Katy Tur's Net Worth and Salary?

Katy Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist who has a net worth of $8 million. Katy Tur is best known for her work as a correspondent and anchor at MSNBC, where she built a reputation as one of the most visible political reporters of her generation. Her national profile rose sharply during the 2016 presidential campaign, when she served as NBC News' embedded reporter covering Donald Trump's run for the White House. That assignment placed her at the center of a volatile, often hostile campaign environment and made her a frequent target of Trump's public criticism. The experience turned Tur into a recognizable face well beyond cable news audiences and cemented her status as a frontline political journalist.

After the election, Tur transitioned into a prominent on-air role at MSNBC, anchoring her own daytime program and contributing to the network's election coverage, breaking news, and political analysis. Her reporting style combines straight news delivery with a firsthand perspective shaped by years on the campaign trail. In addition to anchoring, she regularly conducts interviews with lawmakers, political strategists, authors, and newsmakers across the ideological spectrum.

Tur has also expanded her career through writing. Her memoir, "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History," detailed her experiences covering the 2016 election and became a bestseller, further establishing her voice beyond television. The book blended political reporting with personal reflection, offering insight into the pressures faced by journalists in an increasingly polarized media environment.

Early Life

Katy Tur was born Katherine Bear Tur on October 26, 1983, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard and is of Jewish descent. It should be noted that Zoey Tur was known as Robert Tur before undergoing a male-to-female transition. Katy attended the Brentwood School, graduating in 2001. She then enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 2005.

Salary

Katy Tur's MSNBC salary is $4 million per year.

O.J. Simpson Chase

In the 1990s, Robert Tur (Katie's then father, who is now known as Zoey Tur) was arguably the most famous helicopter-pilot journalist of all time. In the '90s, Robert operated a helicopter above Los Angeles and was able to film some of the most notable moments of the 20th century. Robert was responsible for filming the Reginald Denny beating during the LA riots, damage from the Loma Prieta earthquake, and more.

Perhaps most famously, Robert was the first reporter to locate O.J. Simpson's Bronco on June 17, 1994, which kicked off the most famous car chase of all time. Robert followed O.J. throughout the chase and filmed some of the most commercially valuable footage. Tur owns all the footage she shot and has successfully licensed it many times over the last few decades.

Katy's memoir, "Rough Draft," was published in 2022. The book details her challenging relationship with Zoey. In her memoir, Katy discussed the challenges she faced throughout the process of the transition, but also wrote about the fact that the two had become estranged for reasons unrelated to the transition. She described a shaky childhood in which there was sometimes violence in the home. She did not speak to Zoey for several years, but the two did later reconcile, and Tur has acknowledged that her parents had been broadcast pioneers who were influential on her own career.

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Career

After finishing her studies, Tur decided to pursue a career in broadcast journalism. She initially reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. She later worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team.

In 2009, Katy joined NBC's local station in New York City, WNBC-TV. She rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. She received an award at the Associated Press Awards in the Best Spot News Award for her coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Other notable stories she covered include the death of Cory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

One of her most notable assignments came in 2016 when she worked as the embedded NBC and MSNBC reporter on the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign. As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about the "Access Hollywood" tape that the network had in its possession. The tape featured Trump's vulgar and controversial remarks about women in a recorded conversation with Billy Bush.

Katy became a well-known figure to the Trump campaign and was singled out on several occasions by Trump himself during speeches he made during campaign rallies in which he criticized the media's coverage of him. At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, was verbally harassed. According to Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, he did not intend for his supporters to harass or attack her in a malicious way.

In 2017, Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. She also reflected on the time she spent covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at his rallies in an article she wrote for "Marie Claire." In September 2017, she also published a book called "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History." In the book, she recounts her experience in covering the 2016 presidential campaign. The book spent several weeks on the "New York Times" Best Seller list.

Since the campaign, Tur has continued working as an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC and has her own show, "Katy Tur Reports."

Personal Life

From 2006 to 2009, Tur was in a relationship with then-MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster Keith Olbermann. Since their breakup, Olbermann has at various times made disparaging comments about Tur on his show and in the media. As recently as December 2022, Olbermann went on a rant about Tur, claiming that he had helped her write her memoir and making strange comments about her now husband, Tony Dokoupil. Other prominent media and news correspondents, like Megyn Kelly, also got involved by scolding Olbermann for being unable to move on from the failed relationship.

Katy began dating Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent for CBS News, sometime around 2015. The two married in October 2017. They welcomed a son together in April 2019 and a daughter in May 2021. Tur also has two stepchildren from Dokoupil's first marriage.

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