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. Tur reflected on covering the Trump campaign and his treatment of her at campaign rallies in an article for Marie Claire.

In 2017, Tur received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. According to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, ' didn't mean it in any malicious way', and he did not want anyone to attack or harass her. At an event in Florida, Tur was booed by Trump supporters and, according to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, verbally harassed. On several occasions during his campaign rallies, Trump singled out Tur in his criticism of the press. As a reporter for NBC, Tur was assigned the task of informing the Trump campaign about the Access Hollywood tape that the network had in its possession, featuring Trump's remarks about women in a conversation with Billy Bush.

Tur was NBC News's and MSNBC's embedded reporter on the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign. While at NBC News, she covered the death of Cory Monteith, a motorcycle attack on an SUV, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. That year she was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 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. Later on, Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team. Tur reported for KTLA, HD News/ Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, WNBC-TV, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC Reports, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC. Katherine Bear Tur ( / ˈ t ɜːr/ born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News.

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