Savannah Guthrie will return to 'Today' show in April 15%

By Jessica Schladebeck64%

3/27/2026, 12:45:49 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Optimism Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 18.7% saturation with 95 hits. Analysis detected 844 faulty-reasoning hits from 509 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.9% and a BS Rank of 15% (18,197 of 21,203 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.80% of the article peer group.

“TODAY” host Savannah Guthrie will return to her desk on April 6, as investigators continue to search for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who has been missing for nearly two months. 
“I just love this beautiful place that we call home, where we get to come and be every day,” she said of the “Today” show. 
“I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. 
But I can’t not come back because it’s my family,” Guthrie said, explaining it was going to be difficult for her  being in a such a joyful place, given the pain she is currently experiencing. 
“I don’t know if I can do it. 
I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. 
I would like to try.” 
“I’m not gonna be the same. 
But maybe it’s like that old poem, ‘More beautiful in the broken places,’  she added, 
Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Show. 
(NBC News) 
“Today” show alum Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for Guthrie, revealed her friend’s upcoming return during the Friday morning broadcast, which also included the second part of Guthrie’s interview about her mother’s disappearance. 
Guthrie’s last show with “Today” was on Jan. 30, just two days before her mother was reported missing on Feb. 
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She was last seen alive the night before, returning to her home in Tucson after grabbing dinner with her other daughter, Annie, and Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni. 
The couple said they dropped her off between 9 and 9:30 p.m., but concern for the Guthrie matriarch began to swirl when she failed to show up for church the next day as she usually does. 
When authorities arrived at Nancy’s home, they found her blood near the front door, while the back doors were inexplicably left propped open. 
Authorities have uncovered few other clues since. 
They did, however, manage to recover footage from an outside doorbell camera video they believe shows a possible suspect, though he has not been identified. 
The FBI Phoenix office has described this person as “a male, approximately 5’9  5’10, with an average build.” 
He is also wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack in the clip. 
Savannah Guthrie. 
(Kwaku Alston/NBCUniversal) 
During her sit down with Kotb, Guthrie vowed to not come undone amid the ongoing search for Nancy while calling on anyone with information to come forward. 
“I will not fall apart. 
I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mother from them. 
I will not let them take my joy,” she declared. 
“We need help. 
We need someone to tell the truth,” Guthrie continued. 
“I have no anger in my heart. 
I have hope in my heart, I have love. 
But this family needs peace. 
I don’t think we deserve any more or less than any other person.” 
She added: “How can someone vanish without a trace? 
How? 
Someone knows something.” 
The Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to Nancy’s return home. 
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509 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers45%attributed speech278writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 25 words • 100.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 12 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 36 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 8 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 13 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 5 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 6 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageNBC News • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageFBI Phoenix office • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageNBCUniversal • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 5 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 13 words • 100.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 10 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 3 words • 100.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 9 words • 100.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 7 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 9 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 5 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 13 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 9 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 1 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Savannah Guthrie

100%flagged-word coverage
208 attributed words90% of attributed speech79% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Indoctrination-6.8 ptsWriter: 14.0%Savannah Guthrie: 7.2%7.2%Biased Writer Voice-0.9 ptsWriter: 12.9%Savannah Guthrie: 12.0%12.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +0.5 ptsWriter: 5.8%Savannah Guthrie: 6.3%6.3%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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