Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012.[1][2]
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, regularly reporting on trials throughout the country. After serving as a White House correspondent between 2008 and 2011 and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown in 2010 and 2011,[3] Guthrie was announced as the co-host of Today's third hour alongside Natalie Morales[4] and Al Roker.[5] In that role, she substituted as news anchor and main co-host and appeared as the chief legal analyst across all NBC platforms.[6] Guthrie ceased hosting the third-hour and acting as chief legal analyst in 2012 when she replaced Ann Curry as co-anchor of Today.
Early life and education
Savannah Clark Guthrie was born on December 27, 1971, in Melbourne, Australia, and was named after her great‑grandmother.[7][8] Her father was stationed in the city for work, and the family lived in the suburb of Beaumaris at the time of her birth.[9]They returned to the United States two years later and settled in Tucson, Arizona.[7] Guthrie did not return to Australia until 2015, while working for Today, describing the visit as a "lifelong dream" of hers.[10] While in Australia, Guthrie and her mother Nancy visited Sydney, as well as the Melbourne hospital where she was born, and the house where they lived.[11]
Guthrie's first job in broadcasting was at KTVM, the NBC affiliate in Butte, Montana; she started in October 1993, but on her 10th day at the station, the local news operation was closed.[16][17][18] She then went to work at ABC affiliate KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri, where she worked for two years before returning to Tucson and a job with NBC affiliate KVOA in 1995. After five years in Arizona, she took a job at WRC-TV, NBC's Owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., where she covered major stories, including the September 11 attack on The Pentagon and the 2001 anthrax attacks.[7]
After working for several years as a broadcast journalist, Guthrie chose to resume her higher education, receiving a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2002. She is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Arizona, having scored first place on the Arizona Bar Exam. She also was a member of Order of the Coif and received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers' Student Advocacy award for her work with victims of domestic violence.
On October 14, 2020, Guthrie served as moderator for the town hall scheduled by President Donald Trump after he caught COVID-19 and refused to participate in a virtual presidential debate that was postponed for safety reasons, when Joe Biden scheduled a solo town hall debate, Trump and NBC scheduled one at the same date and time as Biden's town hall.
The Today Show (2011–present)
Guthrie interviews Barack Obama in the White House kitchen for a Super Bowl XLIX pre-game showGuthrie interviews U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in March 2015.
After Guthrie substituted for both Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry on Today, it was confirmed on May 9, 2011, that she would become co-host of the 9 a.m. hour alongside Natalie Morales and Al Roker, and the show's Chief Legal Editor. The move came after Vieira announced her departure from the show as co-host of the main program, and the subsequent promotions of Curry and Morales to main co-host and news anchor, respectively. Guthrie departed The Daily Rundown for Today on June 9, 2011,[21] at which time she was appointed NBC News chief legal analyst, making her first appearance in this role on May 25, 2011.[6] On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Guthrie would co-anchor Today, replacing Curry. Her first day as co-anchor alongside Matt Lauer was on July 9, 2012.[22]
On November 29, 2017, Guthrie welcomed Hoda Kotb as cohost after Lauer's sexual harassment of colleagues became public.[27]
In 2020, she conducted another interview with then-President Trump during his re-election campaign in the 2020 election amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Guthrie pressed him on issues of his debts, coronavirus response, and refusal to outright condemn the right-wing conspiracy theory of QAnon.[28]
Guthrie was included in Time's list of 100 most influential people of 2018.[29]
In 2018 Guthrie participated in Match for Africa, an exhibition tennis match charity event. She played with American professional tennis player Jack Sock against Bill Gates and Swiss professional tennis player Roger Federer. Guthrie and Sock lost. The final score was 3–6.[31]
Guthrie is the author of two children's books: Princesses Wear Pants and Princesses Save the World,[32] and one religious book, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere.[33]
In February 2021, she was announced to be an interim guest host of Jeopardy! following the death of host Alex Trebek. Her episodes aired June 14–25, 2021.[34] Guthrie and Hoda Kotb appeared on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Personal life
Marriages and family
In December 2005, Guthrie married English-born BBC News presenter Mark Orchard, whom she met while covering the trial of Michael Jackson. The couple divorced in January 2009.
Later that year she began a relationship with Democratic political and communications consultant Michael Feldman[7] while vacationing in the Turks and Caicos Islands.[35] They became engaged in 2013 and married on March 15, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona. Two days later, Guthrie announced she was four months pregnant.[36][37] Guthrie gave birth to their first child in August 2014, a daughter they named Vale.[38][39] On June 7, 2016, Guthrie announced she and her husband were again expecting.[40] She gave birth to their second child in 2016, a son they named Charles, after her father, who died unexpectedly in 1988 on a mining exploration in Mexico[41][42]. Their son was a product of in-vitro fertilization[43], according to Guthrie as reported on NBC's Today Show.[44]
In February 2026, the Pima County Sheriff's Department reported that Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, was missing.[46] She was last seen on January 31, 2026, and authorities are treating her disappearance as a crime.[47][48][49] Guthrie stepped away from her NBC duties, including co-hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, to assist in the search.[50][51]
↑"News never rests on the weekend. Why should we?". The Montana Standard (Advertisement). Butte, Montana. October 23, 1993. p.Time Out 22. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
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