Katy Tur

About

Katherine Bear Tur-Dokoupil (; born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent and host of “The Moment” for MS NOW. She has anchored daytime news coverage for the network since 2017; her show had been named Katy Tur Reports since 2021, but in June 2026 became The Moment with Katy Tur. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.

Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. She is of Jewish and Greek descent.

Tur 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. That year she was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on…