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Matt Gutman (born December 5, 1977) is an American reporter for
ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
. He is the network's Chief National Correspondent and appears on various programs for the network. He was the host of the U.S. weekly TV series '' Sea Rescue'' when it ended in September 2018. He is also the author of the book, ''The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand'' about the international rescue of the soccer team from a cave in Thailand in July 2018.


Early life and education

Matthew A. Gutman was born on December 5, 1977, in
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of whi ...
. Gutman attended
Newark Academy Newark Academy is a coeducational private day school located in Livingston, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in sixth through twelfth grades. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Col ...
, where he was honored as a scholar-athlete football player. He graduated from
Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...
in 2000.


Career

Gutman started as a freelance reporter in Argentina in late 2000. His first published article was for the now-defunct English-language Buenos Aires Daily. He then worked for the
Jerusalem Post ''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper w ...
based in Israel from 2001 to 2005 covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also worked for ''
USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...
'' before joining
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in 2006. Gutman lived in the Middle East for nearly eight years, covering most major conflicts, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon, and filing dispatches from nearly every country in the region. He moved to
Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
, Florida for
ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
in 2008 and began appearing on various programs and platforms for the network including ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and the network's magazine show ''
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''. He has filed reports from more than 40 countries for
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over the past decade. In 2014, he took over the hosting duties for ''Sea Rescue'' and hosted about 120 episodes of the show. In late 2016, while reporting on the collapsing health care system of Venezuela, he was detained for five days by police and intelligence services. His book ''The Boys in the Cave'', an account of the
Tham Luang cave rescue In June and July 2018, a junior association football team and their assistant coach were rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province in northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old ass ...
, was published in November 2018. It has been translated into six languages.


Suspension and return

In January 2020, Gutman was suspended by ABC News for incorrectly reporting that, during the death of
Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...
in the
2020 Calabasas helicopter crash On January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed in the city of Calabasas, California, around northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, while en route from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport. All nine people on board were killed: retire ...
, all four of Bryant's children had died when only Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna "Gigi" was onboard the helicopter and perished in the crash. Later that year, Gutman resumed reporting for ABC and appeared on the October 23, 2020, episode of ''20/20'' entitled "The Perfect Liar," in which he interviewed jailhouse informant Paul Skalnik and deathrow inmate James Dailey. However, in February 2021, Gutman was briefly subjected to an additional suspension after allegedly violating Covid-19 company policy when visiting a Los Angeles hospital during the pandemic. Gutman, who lives in L.A., has done extensive reporting on the Covid-19 crisis.


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ABC Medianet biography
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