NBC’s Katy Tur gets the Sunday Styles treatment in today’s New York Times.
Her cutting wit, which she underscores with a sharply raised eyebrow, comes through occasionally. When the White House press secretary Sean Spicer, on the receiving end of a barrage of questions, blurted, “You guys have an NBC thing,” Ms. Tur hissed back on-air: “Yes, we do. It’s called journalism.”
“I’ve always been an outsider,” said Tur, who covered Donald Trump‘s campaign for president but remains in New York anchoring for MSNBC. “I think being in the White House press corps, it’s difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.”
“Katy is old-school in the best ways,” said NBC News chairman Andy Lack,. “She’s tough, edgy, and operates with one guiding mission: Chase the facts. And you can’t rattle her. No matter what’s thrown at her, she stays focused, digs in and gets answers.”
The daughter of two longtime TV journalists in Los Angeles, the Times writes, “Tur showed a knack for reporting early on. A family video taken when she was 4 years old shows her looking much as she does today, long blondish hair, aquiline nose, wide mouth, sidling up to her 2-year-old brother, Jamie, with a microphone in hand, asking him questions.”