Emily Matson, a well-liked, award-winning information anchor and reporter at WIPU-TV in Erie, PA, for practically 20 years, has died. She was 42.
NBC affiliate WIPU’s father or mother firm Lilly Broadcasting confirmed her demise December 11 however provide no different particulars.
“It’s with a really heavy coronary heart that we now have discovered of the passing of our beloved Erie Information Now information anchor Emily Matson,” Lilly Broadcasting mentioned in an announcement. “Emily was a shining mild in our newsroom, delivering information with a ardour and love she had for the Erie neighborhood and Northwest Pennsylvania. We liked Emily dearly and our hearts exit to the Matson household and her husband Ryan right now.”
Matson started her profession as an intern at Erie’s WJET-TV within the early 2000s. Shifting at WICU, she first produced the station’s morning present for 2 years earlier than touchdown a gig as an on-air reporter. “I used to be unhappy to go away the morning crew, however excited when supplied the reporter job I’d been striving for,” Matson wrote on her bio web page. “As a basic project reporter, I centered on the crime beat since my first day on the job, and I adore it! I really feel I’m actually making a distinction within the Erie neighborhood, assembly new folks, and telling the tales that have an effect on all people day-after-day.”
She went on the co-anchor WICU’s nightly 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. and was a two-time winner of the Excellent Spot Information Award from the Pennsylvania Affiliation of Broadcasters.
“One of many issues I really like about my job is that no single day is EVER the identical,” Matson wrote in her bio. “I really like breaking information conditions.”
