Gutman started as a freelance print reporter in Argentina in late 2000. His first published article was for the now-defunct English-language
Buenos Aires Daily.
Middle East In mid 2001, Gutman moved to Tel Aviv during the peak of the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada and worked for
The Jerusalem Post from 2001 to 2005 covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also worked for
USA Today before joining
ABC News Radio in 2006. Gutman lived in the Middle East for nearly eight years, covering most major conflicts, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon, filing dispatches from nearly every country in the region. He was named ABC News' Chief National Correspondent in January 2018. On December 9, 2025, it was announced that he would leave ABC for CBS News.
CBS News On December 9, 2025, CBS News announced that Gutman would be joining the network as chief correspondent on January 5, 2026, to be based in Los Angeles.
Suspension and return In January 2020, Gutman was suspended for a month by ABC News for incorrectly reporting that, during the death of
Kobe Bryant in the
2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, all four of Bryant's children had died when only Bryant's 13-year-old daughter
Gianna, "Gigi", was on board the helicopter and perished in the crash. Gutman's book indicates that experience served as a jumping off point "for a personal journey into the science and treatment of panic attacks," which his book says he has suffered for decades. That February, Gutman resumed reporting for ABC and appeared on the network's shows. Later in the year, on October 23, 2020, his work appeared in an episode of
20/20 entitled "The Perfect Liar," a documentary about wrongful conviction, in which he interviewed jailhouse informant Paul Skalnik and death row inmate James Dailey. In February 2021, Gutman was again suspended from ABC News for a short time for violating Disney
COVID-19 policies after visiting a Los Angeles hospital for newsgathering purposes without the advance permission of ABC News management. In September 2025 he was criticized for describing messages between Tyler Robinson (alleged assassin of
Charlie Kirk) and his partner as "a very intimate portrait," "fulsome" "speaking so lovingly about his partner" and "very touching." == Books ==