Brian Wood is a television
news anchor,
reporter and
managing editor.
Biography
Brian Wood is currently anchor and reporter for
KATU-TV in
Portland, OR. From 2002 - 2008 he was the main anchor and managing editor at
WMAR-TV in
Baltimore, MD.
He has also anchored and reported at
KIRO-TV in
Seattle, WA and
KLAS-TV in
Las Vegas, NV.
Notable
Brian Wood's live reporting as the
Nisqually earthquake hit Seattle on February 28, 2001 was broadcast internationally. .
He shares the 1992
Peabody Award for reporting the documentary “When the Salmon Runs Dry” which explored the causes and effects of the declining population of wild salmon in the
Columbia River system.
His work during the
1998 Olympics in
Nagano, Japan was featured in the
The Seattle Times Brian Wood has earned four Emmy awards and several AP and Society of Professional Journalists awards for his reporting on, among other subjects, the
Green River Killer, the deadly
immigrant smuggling on
container ships from
Hong Kong and the sinking of the
Interstate 90 floating bridge in November 1990.
Wood graduated from the
University of Washington with an honors degree in Political Science and Communications. He grew up in
Bellevue, Washington and attended
Interlake High School.
References
(Seattle Times newspaper)
(Seattle Weekly Newspaper)
(Broadcasting & Cable Magazine)
(Vanderbilt Television News Archive)
(History Alive: Green River Killer)
(Seattle Times newspaper)
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