Katy Tur, MSNBC star & best-selling author, recalls her Brooklyn beginnings
Former News 12 Brooklyn Reporter Punching Above Her Weight
Now a best-seller, the new book by MSNBC anchor Katy Tur could not be more timely. Already high profile, the news reporter appears weekdays at 2 on MSNBC Live with Katy Tur.
Now her book, entitled “Unbelievable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History” has become a page-turner that many are reading at one sitting.
That was the verdict of Eagle writer, Peter Stamelman, whose interview with Katy Tur appears on BrooklynEagle.com, and in the Brooklyn Eagle Weekly Magazine.
Tur’s recollections of her start at News 12 Brooklyn were filled with classic newbie reporter stories: at 5’2” she stood on a chair to interview then-councilman Bill DeBlasio; hailing from un-drenched LA, she could not believe that an outdoor protest rally in East New York would actually take place in foul weather: and squaring off with feisty then-Councilman Charles Barron in Brooklyn was good practice for her later encounters with Donald Trump.