Larry Warren

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Larry Warren is one of Utah's senior news reporters. At ABC 4 News, he's come full circle, back to the station where he began his career.

In 1971, Channel Four selected him while a journalism student at the University of Utah as recipient of a full tuition scholarship and paid internship. That launched Larry on a 35 year (and counting) adventure through journalism. Most of those years were spent at another Salt Lake area television station, but in 2003, Larry joined ABC 4 News.

His career has taken him from the Iditarod Trail and Alaska's Arctic North Slope to the steamy jungles of Guatemala. In pursuit of Olympic stories and various humanitarian missions, he's traveled numerous times to European capitols from London to Yerevan, Armenia. He also counts the summer of 1988 covering the Yellowstone fires as a career highlight, along with another summer spent in Miami covering the Ted Bundy murder trial.

He's also jumped out of an airplane, flown in a stunt plane, ridden every scary amusement park ride in Utah, thrown food at snapping twelve foot alligators, sat in the Oval Office with President Carter, yelled questions at three other presidents--(George Bush senior actually stopped and provided an answer!) and had guns pulled on him twice. Never a dull moment in the news business!

He's also specialized in reporting environmental and public land stories, and has contributed essays to three books on public land policy issues. He's also written Park City--Mountain of Treasure, a large format history book published by Skiing Magazine, about his home town of nearly three decades.

Larry also has written more than a hundred magazine articles on a variety of subjects for national and regional magazines, and produced documentaries for television, most recently Silver and Snow--The Park City Story for KUED.

A multiple Emmy Award winner, Larry has also spent a year on a Congressional staff in Washington as a Congressional Fellow. He's chronicled Utah and the West since Calvin Rampton's last term as governor.

The west is his passion, along with his family including three children, and wife Carol Murphy, a civil rights attorney practicing in Salt Lake. His hobbies include anything outdoors--especially skiing, mountain biking,hiking, camping and boating. A native South Dakotan, Larry, after 30 years in Utah, says he's so hooked he'll be a "lifer" here.