Gabe Gutierrez is an NBC News Correspondent based in Atlanta. He reports for all platforms of NBC News, including "TODAY," "NBC Nightly News," MSNBC and NBCNews.com.
Since joining NBC News in March 2012, he's covered major stories all over the country and the world — from hurricanes along the Gulf Coast to wildfires on the West Coast to terrorism in Europe.
When a powerful tornado tore through Moore, Okla., in 2013, Gutierrez was part of the NBC News team that was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. He covered the 2016 presidential campaign, reporting on the Republican field. He also traveled to Mexico to report on the capture one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins, "El Chapo." He was among the first reporters on the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history — the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Fla. — and has reported extensively on police-involved shootings across the country, including those in Dallas, Baton Rouge, La., and Charlotte, N.C. He's also covered terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and London — and reported live from Havana on the changing U.S. relationship with Cuba.
Gutierrez came to NBC News from KHOU-TV in Houston, where he was the station's City Hall reporter. Before that, he was a weekend morning anchor and Emmy-award-winning reporter at WJRT-TV in Flint, Mich. His first on-air job was at WBOY-TV, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, W.Va. While in college, Gutierrez interned at Telemundo in South Florida and at ABC NewsOne in Chicago.
Originally from Miami, Gutierrez graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in political science. He is a member of both the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.