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 based in Israel from 2001 to 2005 covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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.

In late 2016, while reporting on the collapsing health care system of Venezuela, he was detained for five days by Venezuelan police and intelligence services.

Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, describes it as " the author's personal journey into the science and treatment of panic attacks.

"[14] The book received early praise from Publisher's Weekly: “Enlightening… Gutman’s up-close dispatches from his ‘circuitous road toward healing’ are self-aware, sharp, and vulnerable.

Anxiety sufferers should take note.”[15] And also from Kirkus Reviews: “Insightful… Both warm and candid, this book is sure to offer helpful doses of hope, humor, and wisdom.

Later in the year, on October 23, 2020, his work appeared in episode of 20/20 entitled "The Perfect Liar," a documentary about wrongful conviction, in which he interviewed jailhouse informant Paul Skalnik and deathrow inmate James Dailey.