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.[10] That year she was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of theMarch 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side ofManhattan. While at NBC News, she covered the death ofCory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search forMalaysia Airlines Flight 370.[12]
Tur was NBC News's and MSNBC's embedded reporter on the 2016Donald Trump presidential campaign.[13] As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about theAccess Hollywood tape that the network had in its possession, featuring Trump's remarks about women in a conversation withBilly Bush.[14]
On several occasions during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press.[15] At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according toCNN anchorWolf Blitzer, verbally harassed.[16] According to Trump campaign managerKellyanne Conway, "(Trump) didn't mean it in any malicious way",[17] and he did not want anyone to attack or harass her.[18]
Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article forMarie Claire.[20] In September 2017, she published a book,Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, recounting her experience in covering Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.[21][22] The book spent several weeks on theNew York Times Best Seller list.[23]
From 2006 to 2009, Tur was in a relationship with then-MSNBC political commentator and sportscasterKeith Olbermann who openly claims to have edited and even written many of her news reports, as well as advising many of her career choices, paying off her student loans, and the rent to her apartment for a year after they separated.[10] Tur marriedTony Dokoupil, a correspondent forCBS News, on October 27, 2017, in Utah.[24][25] Together they have a son, born in April 2019,[26] and a daughter, born in May 2021.[27] She also has two stepchildren from Dokoupil's first marriage.[28]
Tur had a falling out with one of her parents,Zoey Tur, and the two did not speak for several years.[29] In her 2022 bookRough Draft: A Memoir, Tur details her parents' achievements, as well as her relationship with them while being raised as the daughter of "parents as broadcast pioneers who often put themselves in harm's way".[30]
^Abramson, Jill (September 12, 2017)."A Memoir by Donald Trump's Favorite Target".The New York Times. Archived fromthe original on September 12, 2017.As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of alerting the Trump campaign to the now notorious "Access Hollywood" tape.....
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