Michael Wooten Biography

Michael Wooten is an American Award-winning anchor and managing editor at WGRZ 2. He has been working for the station since joining in February 2009. 

Michael Wooten Education

Michael attended the prestigious Yeager Scholarship at Marshall University (Go Herd!) and graduated Summa Cum Laude, earning a B.J. degree. In addition, Michael studied at England’s Oxford University and Madrid’s Antonio de Nebrija University in Spain.

Michael Wooten Career

Wooten serves as an anchor and managing editor at WGRZ 2 On Your Side in Buffalo, NY, specializing in in-depth investigative reporting. He started his journalism career at WSAZ-TV an NBC affiliate where he served as a producer and later on served as a reporter and weekend anchor. While at the station, he enclosed his most memorable story which was interviewing then-Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the same day. He also interviewed a ton of national politicians during the primary and general election campaigns in 2018.

Wooten left the station in February 2009 and joined WGRZ-TV where he enclosed the 2009 crash of Continental Flight 3407. Since he started his journalism career, he has managed to enclose different stories that have hit the headlines all across the states and beyond. Some of them include the Aurora, Colorado movie theater massacre in July 2012 and the Denver area for flooding in 2013. In addition to this, he also reported Live from Chardon, Ohio after the school shooting and the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Wooten has also managed to win a ton of awards including an Emmy Award and was also nominated for a number of other Emmy awards. He is also a recipient of multiple Associated Press awards, two of them being for Best Enterprise Reporting and one for Best Continuing Encasement. Whenever he is not working, he enjoys spending his free time with his family and friends. He also enjoys traveling and trying out new restaurants.

Michael Wooten Awards

For his hydraulic fracturing or fracking, report, Michael has won the Emmy Award in New York. He has received several other Emmy Awards, two for Best Enterprise Reporting and one for Best Continuing Coverage for the Associated Press Awards. In 2015 Michael’s investigative report on Cell Phone Spying at the Erie County Sheriff’s Office was awarded WGRZ Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. Another Regional Innovation Award for Edward R. Murrow was awarded in 2018 by Michael.

Michael Wooten Age

Wooten was born in West Virginia. He likes to keep his personal life private hence has not yet disclosed the year and month he was born. It is therefore not known when he celebrates his birthday.

Michael Wooten Height

Wooten stands at a height of approximately 5 feet, 8 inches.

Michael Wooten Family

Wooten is very private about his personal life therefore it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of him being in any past relationship with anyone.

Michael Wooten Wife

Wooten is very private about his personal life therefore it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of him being in any past relationship with anyone.

Michael Wooten’s Net Worth

Wooten has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being an anchor and managing editor.

Michael Wooten Salary

Wooten earns an annual salary ranging from $40,000 – $ 110,500.

Michael Wooten Gay

It is not clear whether he’s gay or not.

Michael Wooten WGRZ

Wooten works at WGRZ where she works alongside other famous WGRZ anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Adam Benigni
2. Rob Hackford
3. Liz Lewin
4. Danielle Church
5. Jackie Roberts
6. Ron Plants
7. Claudine Ewing
8. Heather Ly
9. Kelly Dudzik
10. Pete Gallivan
11. Melissa Holmes
12. Maryalice Demler
13. Scott Levin

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