Matt Gutman

About

Matt Gutman (born December 5, 1977) is an American journalist and author who is currently the chief correspondent for CBS News.
He has been recognized with multiple awards from organizations including The Emmy Awards, RTDNA, the Peabody and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of the books No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks (2023) and The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand (2018) about the Tham Luang cave rescue. He was the host of the American weekly TV series Sea Rescue when it ended in September 2018 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series in 2016.

Matthew A. Gutman was born to a Jewish family in Princeton, New Jersey on December 5, 1977. His father, Paul, was killed in a small plane crash in Georgia on September 25, 1990, when Gutman was 12 years old.
Gutman attended Newark Academy, where he was honored as a scholar-athlete football player. He graduated from Williams College in 2000.

Gutman started as a freelance print reporter in Argentina in late 2000. His first published article was for the now-defunct English-language…