Tur, Katy

Katy Tur is the anchor of MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports, the author of the New York Times bestseller Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, and the recipient of a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. In Rough Draft: A Memoir (Atria Books), she writes about her eccentric and volatile California childhood, punctuated by forest fires, earthquakes, and police chases – all seen from a thousand feet in the air. Her parents pioneered helicopter journalism and grew rich and famous for their aerial coverage of events such as the Reginald Denny beating in the 1992 Los Angeles riots and O.J. Simpson’s notorious run in the white Bronco. Tur recounts her complicated relationship with her father, and she charts her own survival from local reporter to globe-trotting foreign correspondent running from her past. She also opens up about her struggles with burnout and impostor syndrome, her stumbles in the anchor chair, and her relationship with CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil. Rough Draft explores the gift and curse of family legacy, examines the roles and responsibilities of the news, and asks the question: To what extent do we each get to write our own story?