Penny Preston
Freelance ReporterWhen Penny Preston came to Cody, Wyoming, in 1998, she was already an award winning broadcast journalist, with big market experience. She had anchored in Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Tulsa, and Fayetteville. She’s been a news director in Dallas and Cody, and a bureau chief in Fayetteville, AR. She’s won statewide awards for her television and radio stories in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Her stories also air on CBS, NBC, NBC Today Show, and CNN network news.
But, her greatest love is Northwest Wyoming, and that is where she’s produced more than broadcast news stories since 2000. As former news director at the Big Horn Radio Network in Cody, she produced hundreds more radio stories and newscasts.
Penny has years of historical knowledge about Northwest Wyoming, and the Greater Yellowstone Area. She lives within 30 miles of Yellowstone. She has close connections with the scientific community in the region. She was a seasonal Park Ranger in Yellowstone for five years.
On June 21st, 2014, the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters gave Penny two awards for photography and breaking news coverage. Since moving to Wyoming, she’s received four other WAB awards for excellence in television and radio news coverage.
Penny’s husband Charles is a scientist who came to Cody to create the content and programs for the Draper Museum of Natural History at the Center of the West. Penny received the “Civilian Desert Shield - Desert Storm U.S. Air Force Medal” in recognition of her volunteer civilian service under hazardous wartime conditions in Saudi Arabia. Penny is a martial artist, with a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is also a certified scuba diver. Penny has traveled world-wide, but loves to travel most in Wyoming and Montana.
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A proposal to build a Mormon temple in Cody is creating passionate testimony from people who are for and against the project. The city’s Planning, Zoning and Adjustment Board had to meet in the Cody Auditorium to accommodate the large crowd Tuesday.
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Yellowstone National Park scientists are using a unique tool to help them reconstruct the highways demolished by last year’s floods. LIDAR uses a laser to let researchers map the land surface under the trees, water, and ground cover.
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Wyoming’s most famous waterfall, the lower falls of the Yellowstone River, is featured on the U.S. Postal Service’s newest stamp issue called Waterfalls. The Service chose to reveal the twelve Waterfalls Stamps in Yellowstone National Park.
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When a grizzly was shot and killed on the North Fork of the Shoshone Forest on May 1, this year, Cody wildlife photographer Amy Gerber saw the carcass about thirty yards off the highway that same day. She said she spoke to regional and national news outlets about it. She didn’t know why someone would shoot the 530-pound bear.
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Listen to the full show here.A Reopened Clergy Abuse Investigation Highlights Why Police Need Sexual Violence TrainingSixteen years ago, the Cheyenne…
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Can you imagine paying a tow bill of six figures? In an effort to stop this type of gouging, the Wyoming Highway Patrol has appointed a "Tow Coordinator"…
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A can of rental bear spray saved a boy’s life, and the parents thanked the rental company for the spray…and the training. Rental Bear Spray company owner…
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Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk could leave the park. In his first television interview on a possible transfer, Wenk said he prefers to retire in…
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Listen to the full show here. "They Don't Trust Us And We Don't Trust Them": Discrimination Of Native AmericansHalf of Native Americans living on Indian…