Despite grappling with debilitating panic attacks for over twenty years, CBS News Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman built a distinguished career reporting from war zones and natural disasters. After a live on-air episode led to a suspension and a deep personal reckoning, he decided to seek out help and understand the science behind his anxiety.

Gutman takes audiences through his exploration of various treatments, from traditional therapy and cognitive-behavioral techniques to unconventional methods like ayahuasca and psilocybin. With candor and insight, Gutman offers a powerful message of hope to those who struggle with their mental health. While there may not be a singular solution, his own journey reveals a path to peace of mind, a must-hear for anyone confronting their own inner struggles.

Having spent the last decade reporting on some of the biggest stories from around the globe for ABC News and now CBS News, Gutman is also uniquely positioned to give his insider perspective on the events and issues that continue to have an impact on the world stage to this day — terrorism, mass shootings, immigration, and climate change. Gutman’s also offers special insight into the Middle East, where he spent nearly a decade before going to ABC News, and the upheaval in Venezuela, where he was once detained by the country’s secret police. Sharp, spirited, and doggedly committed to his journalistic instinct to shed light on the truth, Gutman leaves audiences informed and electrified in equal measure.

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Matt Gutman is an CBS News Chief Correspondent and former ABC News Chief National Correspondent. Gutman has covered may of the major stories of the past decade—from the spate of mass shootings and catastrophic storms in the US, to terror in Europe; political upheaval at home and the controversy over the US-Mexico border. But it’s not all tragedy — he’s also reported on triumphs like four Olympic games and the miraculous rescue of the boys soccer team from a cave in Thailand, about which Gutman authored the 2018 book The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand.

In September 2023, Gutman released another book, No Time to Panic, an unflinching look at panic attacks by the reporter after his career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds. Filled with wisdom and actionable insights, it’s both an inspirational journey and a roadmap—if not toward a singular cure, then to something only more worthy: peace of mind.

While covering the upheaval in Venezuela in late 2016, he was detained for five days by the country’s secret police for “the crime” of reporting on the fatal shortages of medicine and food in the country’s hospitals. Experiencing the inside of one of Venezuela’s dreaded intelligence agency’s prisons further opened to his eyes the corrosive power of repressive governments.

Previously based in Miami, Gutman and his ABC News team won awards for their investigation of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Gutman also made headlines covering the 2010 Gulf oil spill, reporting on BP’s efforts to plug the well and the economic and environmental devastation wrought by the spill.

Before joining ABC News in 2008 where he started at ABC News Radio, Gutman was a Jerusalem-based reporter for seven years, covering every major conflict in the Middle East, from the Palestinian uprising to the invasion of Iraq. He was in Mosul, Iraq in December 2003 when a shepherd tending his sheep informed him that Saddam Hussein had been cornered in Tikrit two hours away. How did the shepherd know? He’d just watched it on Al Jazeera in his hut, he answered. News does travel fast…

Gutman is married and a father of two. He is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts.