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 year after a huge mud spill killed fish below the Willwood dam near Cody, another sediment release is muddying the Shoshone River now. But, Wyoming’s…
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Wyoming Hunters will be able to take wolves again. October first will start the first wolf hunting season in the Cowboy state since 2013.Hunters took 43…
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Listen to the full show here. Sexual Assault Cases Rarely Reported, Difficult To ProsecuteWhen it comes to sexual assault in the U.S., the majority of…
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Grizzly bears may be taken off the Endangered Species list soon. And, hunts are part of Wyoming’s bear management plans. Those planned hunts are drawing…
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Grizzly bears may be taken off the endangered species list soon. And, a Wyoming Game and Fish supervisor said the state will make plans for grizzly hunts.…
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People taking pictures of themselves doing dangerous things cost lives in Yellowstone last year. One man died in a hot spring. Park officials have found a…
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Listen to the full show here. Wyoming Lawmakers Still Working On TrumpcareWyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney helped her party pass a historic bill to unwind…
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Wyoming is taking over wolf management, again. A federal appeals court has entered its final order upholding Wyoming’s wolf management plan. So, the state…
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Listen to the full show here. Unfazed Or Disengaged? UW Teaching Students React To K-12 CutsK-12 education in Wyoming is facing immediate cuts on the…