US journalist back on air after mother’s abduction

Published April 7, 2026
A drone view shows media staging near the home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, U.S. February 9. — Reuters/File
A drone view shows media staging near the home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, U.S. February 9. — Reuters/File

NEW YORK: US television journalist Savannah Guthrie returned to her job as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show on Monday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother vanished from her Arizona home in an unresolved kidnapping.

At 7am in the show’s Manhattan studio, Guthrie launched into the headlines the US war on Iran, the Artemis II astronauts’ traveling to the far side of the moon before briefly acknowledging her absence.

“We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good be home,” Guthrie said.

“Yes, it is good to have you back at home,” her co-anchor Craig Melvin replied, patting Guthrie’s hand. “Well, here we go, ready or not, let’s do the news,” Guthrie said.

She was last at the anchor’s desk in January, shortly before her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson. An armed man wearing a ski mask was recorded tampering with her doorbell camera before the disappearance.

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings later recorded emotional pleas for their mother’s return, offering a $1 million reward, but she has yet to be found.

In a video she recorded in February, Guthrie said her family was “blowing on the embers of hope” that Nancy Guthrie was still alive, but acknowledged that “she may already be gone.”

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2026

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