Emily Matson, a well-liked, award-winning information anchor and reporter at WIPU-TV in Erie, PA, for almost 20 years, has died. She was 42.
NBC affiliate WIPU’s guardian firm Lilly Broadcasting confirmed her dying December 11 however supply no different particulars.
“It’s with a really heavy coronary heart that now we have realized 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 cherished Emily dearly and our hearts exit to the Matson household and her husband Ryan presently.”
Matson started her profession as an intern at Erie’s WJET-TV within the early 2000s. Transferring 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 common 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 individuals, and telling the tales that have an effect on all people each 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 like about my job is that no single day is EVER the identical,” Matson wrote in her bio. “I like breaking information conditions.”
