Matt Gutman
Matt Gutman is ABC News’ chief national correspondent, reporting for all of the network’s programs and platforms, including “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “20/20,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline” and ABC News Live.
Throughout his nearly 20 years with ABC News, Gutman has reported from over 50 countries, covering a wide range of major global and domestic events. He was on the ground in Israel the day after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and then for the next 18 months, extensively reported on Israel’s resulting assault on Gaza. He was also on the ground when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022.
Based in Los Angeles, Gutman was one of the first network reporters to respond to the fires that devastated the city in January 2025 and then stayed on the fire lines for the next month. He has covered the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturns, the George Floyd protests, mass shootings, and the evolving immigration landscape and recent crackdowns on the undocumented.
Over the past decade, Gutman has also been one of the most frequently used correspondents on “20/20,” working on blockbuster cases, including the Karen Read murder trial. In addition to his work on camera, Gutman has produced and hosted two highly successful true crime podcasts, “Cutthroat Inc.” and the chart-topping “Devil in the Desert.”
Gutman and his teams have been recognized and received multiple awards, including multiple Edward R. Murrow and Emmy® awards, as well as a DuPont, NABJ, Gracie, and Christopher awards.
In 2018, he authored “The Boys in the Cave,” which chronicled the heroics of a crew of cave-diving misfits, the U.S. Air Force and Thai Navy Seals, who helped rescue the 13 soccer players and their coach stranded in a cave in Thailand. Most recently, Gutman authored the bestselling “No Time To Panic,” an often-humorous chronicle of his battle with panic attacks and his unconventional journey towards treatment.
Gutman spent the early 2000s as a freelance print reporter based in the Middle East, covering the war on terror before moving to Miami in 2008 as an ABC News radio correspondent. From 2008 to 2015, he reported on consequential stories such as the Trayvon Martin shooting and the BP Oil spill.
From 2013 to 2018, he hosted the ABC Television Network’s Saturday morning show “Sea Rescue,” which won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series.
Gutman has two children and two dogs. He is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts.
