Robert Tur
| Zoey Tur | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robert Albert Tur June 8, 1960 Los Angeles County, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Bob Tur, Hanna Tur, Hanna Zoey Tur |
| Occupation | Reporter, journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Marika Gerrard (1980–2003) |
| Children | 2; including Katy Tur |
Hanna Zoey Tur, (born Robert Albert Tur; June 8, 1960), is an American broadcast reporter. As a broadcast reporter, and eventual 10,000-hour commercial pilot, Tur created the Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter, and former wife, Marika Gerrard. Their news service was the first to use an AStar helicopter in a major city for the coverage of live breaking news, and the first to televise a high-speed police chase. Other noteworthy reporting included the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and finding the crashsite of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771. Tur was also the first to locate and televise O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase in 1994.
As a team, Tur and Gerrard received three Television News Emmy Awards; two Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcast excellence (for her reporting on the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and a feature on Jewish Americans leaving their homes for Israel at a time of war); an Associated Press National Breaking News award; and The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Humanitarian Award.
Tur dropped out of community college at age 18 in 1978.
In 1988, Tur was credited by the Los Angeles Times with saving the lives of 54 people during a freak southern California storm in January 1988.
In 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked Tur's pilot's license for "reckless flying" after a complaint from the Los Angeles City Fire Department. In 1995, a California Superior Court ruled against the Los Angeles Fire Department for suborning perjury in the original FAA action, awarding $550,000 and ruling that "public employees are not immune from liability for malicious prosecution if they instigate the prosecution through fraudulent, corrupt or malicious misrepresentations".
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