He has been the host of Nightline, Good Morning America, and World News with Diane Sawyer and of 20/20. Together with his team, they investigated Trayvon Martin’s shooting and this made the national headlines in the series of the exclusive reports about George and Martin Zimmerman with the police investigation of Florida. Their report has the title of Shooting in Sanford: The Death of Trayvon Martin. It was given award of National Association of Black Journalists. He is also recognized when he covered the Gulf oil spill of 2010 and the efforts of BP trying to plug this well together with the environmental and the economic devastation that was brought about by such spill.

Before, Gutman worked like a correspondent under ABC News Radio in the city of Miami and worked there for over 2 years. He was the one who covered Olympics of China, the earthquake of Haiti, the elections of USA in 2008 and he was the anchor for the shuttle launches for this network.

Before deciding to joint ABC News in the year 2008, Gutman had been a reporter based in Jerusalem for over 7 years and he was covering the major conflict of the Middle East. This was shortly when the war broke in the year 2003. Gutman had been in Fallujah and this is where he reported for the first time the attack of IED at the US Troops. He had been in Iraq also in 2003, during the time that Saddam Hussein was being captured. He was given such news by the Shepherd who saw it at Al Jazeera. Before in 2000 until 2001, he was working as a freelancer and was traveling in Africa and Latin America. The first article that was published under his name was in Buenos Aires Herald in the year 2000.

From the first day that Matt Gutman was on the screen, there was a rumor that he may be a gay. However, this is not true since he is a married man and has a wife and children, a son and a daughter. However, information about the name of his wife and his net worth cannot be found easily.