Unbelievable (Tur) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—October 26, 1983
• Where—Los Angeles, California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California-Santa Barbara
• Awards—AP Best Spot Coverage; Walter Cronkite Award
• Currently—lives in New York, New York


Katharine Bear Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist. Following her year-and-a-half-long coverage on the presidential campaign trail of Donald Trump, Tur published her memoir, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American HIstory (2017), which almost immediately became a New York Times bestseller.

Early life and education
Tur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of journalists Hanna Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School in 2001 and from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2005 with a BA, Philosophy.

Career
Tur has reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. Later on, Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team.

In 2009, 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, becoming the network's embedded reporter for the Donald Trump presidential campaign. She was responsible for informing the Trump campaign about the Access Hollywood tape that NBC possessed.

Several times during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press. At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to other journalists, was subjected to verbal harassment. According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, "[Trump] didn't mean it in any malicious way," nor did he intend for anyone to attack or harass her.

In an article for Marie Claire, Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies. She expanded that account into a full-length book, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.

Personal life
From 2006 to 2009, Tur dated then MSNBC political commentator and sportscaster Keith Olbermann. In 2017, she became engaged to Tony Dokoupil, a correspondent at CBS News.

Awards
2009 - AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan
2017 - Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
(Author bio from Wikipedia. Retrieved 10/12/2017.)