Matt Gutman Biography
Matt Gutman is an ABC News correspondent in the United States. He serves as the network’s Chief National Correspondent and appears on a variety of programs. When the US weekly TV series Sea Rescue concluded in September 2018, he was the host. He is also the author of The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand, a book on the international soccer team’s July 2018 rescue from a cave in Thailand.
Matt Gutman Age
Gutman is 44 years old as of 2021. He was born on 5 December 1977 in Westfield, New Jersey, United States.
Matt Gutman Height
Gutman stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68m).
Matt Gutman Family
Gutman is the son Paul J. Gutman and Sharon Gutman. He has a sister named Rachel Gutman, who works as the senior associate editor at The Atlantic.
Matt Gutman Wife
Gutman is married with two children. On May 17th, 2007, he married Daphna Venyige in front of family and friends. They were both employed by ABC News but in different divisions. In 2008, they had their first child, a daughter called Libby. Six years later, the couple gave birth to their second child, a son named Ben.
Matt Gutman Salary
Gutman has been very secretive with his annual pay scale as of now, 2021. However, there is no doubt that he has been accustomed to good pay in terms of salary. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same from our trusted sources.
Matt Gutman Net Worth
Gutman has also not declared his net worth to the public as of now. Nonetheless, there is no doubt that he has been able to accumulate a good figure in terms of his net worth throughout his career in the industry. However, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same.
Matt Gutman Suspension
Gutman was suspended by ABC News in January 2020 after mistakenly reporting that all four of Kobe Bryant’s children died in the 2020 Calabasas helicopter disaster when only Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna “Gigi” was on board the helicopter and died in the crash.
Gutman returned to ABC later that year, and on October 23, 2020, he appeared on the episode of 20/20 titled “The Perfect Liar,” in which he interviewed jailhouse informant Paul Skalnik and death row convict James Dailey. Gutman, however, was briefly suspended again in February 2021 after reportedly breaking Covid-19 corporate policy while visiting a Los Angeles hospital during the epidemic. Gutman, who resides in Los Angeles, has covered the Covid-19 controversy extensively.
Matt Gutman Career
Gutman has covered the COVID-19 crisis, the rallies in American streets following the death of George Floyd, the immigration dilemma, and other international and domestic terror acts. Gutman has been one of the most often featured correspondents on “20/20” for the previous half-decade. Gutman’s hard research helped “20/20” win an Emmy® for its documentary on the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, as well as a Christopher Award for its coverage of the Thai cave rescue. Gutman documented the perilous mission to save the 12 youngsters and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand. The heroism of a motley group of cave diving misfits, the US Airforce, and Thai Navy Seals who spearheaded the rescue were documented in his book “The Boys in the Cave.”
He received accolades for his coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting and the BP oil spill while based in Miami. He presented the ABC Television Network’s Saturday morning show “Sea Rescue” from 2013 to 2018, which received an Emmy in 2016 for “Outstanding Children’s Series.” Gutman spent seven years as a Jerusalem-based correspondent, covering every major conflict in the Middle East, before joining ABC News in 2008, where he began at ABC News Radio.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
