Savannah Clark Guthrie is an eminent US-based broadcast journalist as well as an attorney. She was born on December 27th, 1971. Since July of 2012, she has been serving as a key co-anchor for Today, the NBC News morning show.
Guthrie started working for NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analytical specialist and correspondent. In this capacity, she provided ongoing coverage of trials taking place all throughout the United States.
Before joining Natalie Morales and Al Roker in the third hour of Today, Guthrie served as a White House correspondent from 2008 to 2011 and as a co-anchor for MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown in 2010 and 2011. While serving in that capacity, she filled in as a news anchor, served as the principal co-host, and made appearances as NBC’s top legal analyst across all of the network’s platforms.
When Guthrie took over for Ann Curry as a co-anchor of Today in 2012, she stepped down from her roles as the third-hour co-host as well as the chief legal commentator.
Savannath Guthrie – Age, Background and Education
Savannath Clark Guthrie was born in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia on December 27, 1971. The name ‘Savannah’ is after her great-grandmother. When she was 2, the family relocated to Tucson, Arizona, in the United States of America. She received her diploma at Amphitheater High School in Tucson
Guthrie attended the University of Arizona, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and graduated with high honors in 1993. She belonged to Pi Beta Phi’s Arizona Alpha chapter.
Savannath Guthrie – How her journalism and TV career started
Her first career in broadcasting was at an ABC affiliate station in Columbia, Missouri (KMIZ), where she worked for two years, before moving back to Tucson and getting a job with an NBC affiliate station (KVOA) in 1995.
After living in Arizona for five years, she moved to Washington, District of Columbia, and got a job at WRC-TV, where she covered big stories, including as the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks in 2001.
Guthrie made the decision to return to school after spending a number of years working as a journalist for a broadcasting outlet. She attended Georgetown University Law Center to earn her Juris Doctor degree and graduated with highest honours in the class of 2002.
After earning a perfect score on the Arizona Bar Examination, Savannah Guthrie was admitted to both the bars, the District of Columbia and the state of Arizona.
Her work with women who had been the victims of domestic violence earned her the Student Advocacy prize presented by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. In addition, she was a member of the Order of the Coif.
Savannah Guthrie’s legal expertise
She specialized in white-collar criminal defence at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. White-collar criminality was her specialty.In 2004, she became a trial reporter for CourtTV.
Guthrie covered high-profile court cases such Samuel Alito’s nomination hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Carlie Brucia trial, Martha Stewart’s lawsuit, and Michael Jackson’s trial.
In September 2007, Guthrie started working as a correspondent for NBC News. After Guthrie filled in for both Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry on Today, it was announced on May 9, 2011 that she would be joining Natalie Morales and Al Roker as co-hosts of the 9 a.m. hour on the show. This was in addition to her role as the show’s Chief Legal Editor.
On June 29 2012, it was revealed that Guthrie would be replacing Curry as the co-anchor of Today.
Since she began working for TODAY, Guthrie has been a part of several interviews that have made significant contributions to the programme.
Guthrie had the opportunity to spend a day in the life of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in October of 2011.
During the one-on-one conversation with Guthrie, which was an exclusive interview, Clinton discussed her life in the public eye over the past two decades.
Guthrie sat down with Donald Trump in April 2011 for an interview that was just in time, during which the billionaire discussed his comments regarding President Obama’s birth certificate, lifting the debt ceiling, and his opportuniy to run for president of the United States.
Guthrie conducted an interview with Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the Michael Jackson death trial, in the month of November 2011. The interview, which took place before the verdict was announced, generated a lot of headlines and shed light on a lot of previously undisclosed facts about the night Jackson died. She broke the bin Laden story.
While working at TODAY, Guthrie has also performed a number of interviews with famous people, one of which being an exclusive conversation with Meryl Streep, recipient of an Academy Award.
Guthrie is the author of two children’s novels, the first of which is titled Princesses Wear Pants, and the second is titled Princesses Save the World.
After Alex Trebek passed away as host of Jeopardy! in February 2021, it was announced that Guthrie would serve as an interim guest host for the game show. The dates that her episodes broadcast were 14–25 June 2021.
Savannah Guthrie – Husband and Ex Husband
Guthrie tied the knot with Mark Orchard, an English-born BBC News presenter, in the month of December 2005. She had met Orchard while covering the trial of Michael Jackson.
In 2009, the couple finalized their divorce.
While she was on vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands at the end of 2009, Guthrie started a relationship with Democratic political and communications consultant Michael Feldman.
They announced their engagement in 2013. They tied the knot on March 15th, 2014 in the city of Tucson, Arizona.
After two days, Guthrie revealed that she was four months pregnant with her first child.
Guthrie revealed to her friends and family on June 7, 2016, that she and her husband were expecting their second child.
Savannah Guthrie – Net Worth and Salary
Both Guthrie and her co-anchor, Hoda Kotb, take home $8 million year for their work.It is estimated that she has a net worth of $30 million.