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News
Paul Day is a skillful and trusted newsman who has played key reporting roles in Colorado TV stories spanning four decades. When the kidnapper-killer of Adolph Coors jumped parole, Paul broke the story touching off a nationwide manhunt. That was 1979. He was lead reporter for CBS4 at Stapleton Airport in 1987 after a jetliner crashed in a snowstorm killing dozens on board.
During the 1990's Paul was in the thick of the action during the Pope's visit to Denver and World Youth Day. He field-anchored several days from the tragic flood in Fort Collins and his camera position recorded some of the most memorable images of Columbine.
On breaking news, Paul stays collected and thinks fast on his feet. One day as he and his crew returned to the station after a live report, lightning struck a block away. The blast blew a hole in the steeple of a cathedral and chunks of concrete rained down on the crowded street below. Paul was already reporting live on this breaking story as emergency crews rolled up.
Recently, Colorado's drought has provided the chance to return to an old area of interest -- natural resource reporting. He was CBS4¹s Environmental Specialist for a decade. Paul understands climate change, forest fuels thinning and water supply issues, and he knows how to turn these complex issues into television worth watching. Drought can also mean breaking news, and Paul's experience in covering Colorado wildfires is hard to match.
Paul takes pride in being a storyteller. He's at his best showing how real people are affected by our changing times. Paul is sensitive and caring, but he can be aggressive and hard hitting when a story requires. His work has earned him the Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, a Radio-Television News Directors Association award and several other accolades.
Paul grew up in New Jersey. He graduated from Wabash College in Indiana with a major in English and served in the Navy as a broadcast journalist. His television news career began in Boise, Idaho where he worked in the mid-1970s before moving to Denver.
Paul and his wife Angie have two grown sons and they recently became grandparents. Recreational interests include bike riding, fly-fishing, rafting rivers and paddling on lakes and bays. Paul¹s idea of a good time is pursuing salt-water game fish in a kayak with his fly rod. Weather permitting, he's a frequent cycle-commuter.
