![]() If someone was being nice, I assumed they had ulterior motives. And then I started building up a lot of walls because I didn't trust anybody. People that I worked with would snicker behind my back or they wouldn't take me seriously, or I felt like I had to go above and beyond to make them take me seriously, work harder. When I got my own job in the business, it wasn't a secret because I was in The Post all the time. And so they dug up stuff about me and they found a photo of me dancing in college and put it out there. And at the time, I was a pretty easy target. And Keith was an enemy of The New York Post and Fox News and so they would try to dig up anything they could about him to discredit him or to hurt him. When I first started out, I was a lot younger than Keith. On the price she paid professionally for having a relationship with Keith Olbermann I had talked about problems that you don't get in every neighborhood, problems with hot water, the cameras surveillance not working in some of the housing complexes, the subway's problems. I'd spoken to the types of people that they had never interacted with. And I had been to neighborhoods that they had never been to. And so I valued being at News12 and then at WPIX and WNBC because I got to know New York City better than people I knew who had grown up in New York City. You learn how to craft a story and to get their message out. You learn how to develop sources even when it can be a little bit difficult. ![]() because you learn the ins and outs of a community. If you want to be a reporter, the best place to start, often, is in local news. Katy Tur poses with her parents' news helicopter in an undated photo. I loved the feeling of flight, the rush of it." When they hovered over wildfires, she could feel the heat from the flames on her shins."I felt more comfortable than I felt in my own bed," Tur says. She remembers zooming along highways as they covered police pursuits. Tur would sometimes join them as they chased stories in the helicopter. The footage of Madonna flipping off the news helicopter on her wedding day to Sean Penn in 1985? That finger was aimed at Tur's parents. on that slow-speed pursuit, the Reginald Denny beating in the L.A. "The iconic video that you remember from the '80s and '90s - almost all of it my parents shot," Tur says. One piloted a news helicopter and offered commentary while the other operated the camera, hanging over the skids capturing video. She grew up around cameras and microphones, with parents who ran a breaking news service in Los Angeles. Katy Tur chronicled her experience covering Donald Trump's first presidential campaign on her previous book, Unbelievable.Įditor's note: Katy Tur refers to her parent, Zoey Tur, as her father and uses the pronoun "he" when referring to Zoey prior to her transition.įrom childhood, NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host Katy Tur seemed destined to become a broadcast journalist.
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