December Announcement for the Utah Westerners
January 9, 2017 at 1:45 pm kenttschanz Leave a comment
Craig Wirth
Craig will be discussing his broadcasting career in Utah and present video clips of some of his favorite Utah stories.
Craig Wirth is Communications Director of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah. Originally from Great Falls, Montana. He started working behind the scenes at Channel 4 in 1970, while a student at the University of Utah. He eventually moved to Wisconsin where he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in urban affairs and covered the state legislature for WTMJ in Milwaukee. He returned to Utah where he again worked for Channel 4. He has also worked in the New York and Los Angeles television markets for which he has won four Emmy Awards for his outstanding work. He was inducted into the Utah Broadcasting Association Hall of Fame in 2012. Besides his ongoing work in television he is also the Communications Director for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Communications Department at the University of Utah. Craig considers himself to be a “story teller” who loves history. His specialty is telling the stories of daily life in Utah. His popular feature “Wirth Watching” (Sundays nights on Channel 4) has run for many years.
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