Johnson also wants to dig into what she saw on the ground that made her call the election for Trump, when nobody else did. In this era of absolutely live, instantaneous news, they need you to be able to quickly confirm things and add your analysis to it.News comes in split seconds now, he said.Įven when she slept, Johnson supposed, Tur probably had “a certain level of consciousness still on Twitter.”Īt the library, Johnson will talk with Tur about her perspective as an NBC correspondent and MSNBC anchor about “asking tough questions of the candidate and being called out on a national stage by that candidate, finding composure and TOM JOHNSONĬarrying right on and asking more tough questions.” “She had 30 emails from people saying, ‘Where are you?’” “She turns it back on to find the entire world has shifted!” Johnson said. Tur, at one point, turns her phone off to take a yoga class. “I’m usually the producer on the other end trying to put the program together.” Reading Tur’s take on dealing with studio heads,and go live, every little detail that that entails, fascinated him. “I have been on the road during a campaign, but haven’t covered it anywhere near what she’s doing,” Johnson said. More recently, Johnson has worked as executive editor of Bloomberg Politics and as producer of Showtime’s weekly documentary series, “The Circus: Inside the Biggest Story on Earth.” Murrow awards during two decades at ABC News. These anecdotes intrigued Tom Johnson, a Montclairite who won Peabody, Emmy, DuPont and Edward R. The judge-y looks of a waitress when Tur and her crew ordered a lot of fried food at a South Carolina restaurant.
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The book narrates the campaign, including “backstage” details of the life of the correspondents known as “road warriors”: the time someone slid down an airplane aisle on a tray as the plane ascended, and stopped halfway. I had a feeling that regardless of how election night turned out, someone needed to document the journey.” The sheer absurdity of living out of a suitcase and routinely eating donuts for dinner while trying to make sense of Donald Trump, the reality show star turned presidential front-runner, couldn’t be confined to a couple pages of a magazine. I had something like 67,000 more words in my head. “I ended up submitting three-thousand words. “Early on, I thought about taking notes because the campaign trail was so new to me, but I didn’t think I would write a book until Marie Claire approached me for a first-person account of life on the road. Tur said in an email that she realized on the road she might have a story. 13, in conversation with longtime news producer Tom Johnson, as part of the Montclair Public Library & Foundation’s Open Book/Open Mind Series. Tur will appear at the Montclair Public Library on Oct. It is currently number two on the New York Times Bestseller List, right after Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened?”
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When the assignment became “permanent,” it was expected to last a summer, just six to eight weeks.Īccepting even that short job meant sacrificing an Italian vacation with her French boyfriend.īut Tur got a book out of it. She was new to the campaign and, visiting from her post as an NBC London correspondent, had happened to be visiting New York City to do a story when Trump came down the escalator and declared he was running.Īs Tur writes in her new book, “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History,” “NBC needed a reporter to cover it for a few days.” Katy Tur hadn’t realized he even knew her name. Any unclaimed seats will be made available on a first-come, first served basis in the cafe area 10 minutes before the start of the event.īy GWEN Trump first called her out she was surprised. We always have people who register but do not attend. All reserved seats are now taken and there will not be a waitlist.
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