Eric Newell

Boston

Podcast Production Lead at The National Desk

Sr. Creative Services Producer at WCVB in Boston. Emmy winner. NY native. Dad. Married to an amazing lady. Interests include fiber, videogames and tiny dogs.

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Articles

Wild About Utah: Eye to eye

1 month ago | upr.org | Eric Newell

If you spend enough time in the wilds you acquire some remarkable stories. I’ve had some noteworthy wildlife encounters over the years, but one stands out from long ago. In May, 1991, two high school friends and I headed for Thunder Bowl in the Wasatch Range, with skis on our packs. We had a long slog ahead of us. Two hours and 3,000 vertical feet into our journey we began to encounter spring snow.
Opinion: The muddy boots and calloused hands of public servants

Mar 11, 2025 | upr.org | Eric Newell

I have a lengthy list of experiences and places in the back of beyond that I write about for my Wild About Utah segments. But right now, all of those ideas are on the backburner. I spent President’s Day weekend in Zion National Park — seeking mid-winter sunshine and satisfying a much-needed red rock fix. There was a time when winter months in Zion felt like an off-season experience. Not anymore. The park is packed year-round.
Wild About Utah: Three of Logan’s Finest

Mar 10, 2025 | upr.org | Eric Newell

Miniature pellets of snow swirl past my face, land on the slope we are struggling against, then tumble hundreds of feet down the snow-encased mountain. My friend John Louviere and I have skied the Bear River Range backcountry together since we first met as Utah State University students in 1995. Today the light is flat, causing both sky and mountain to blend into a single dimension, making it difficult to distinguish snow from clouds.
Wild About Utah: Hardware Ranch

Jan 14, 2025 | upr.org | Eric Newell

Hardware Wildlife Management Area (WMA) provides refuge for hundreds of elk who congregate each December and hunker down for the duration of the winter. In 2008, Hardware Education Director Marni Lee and I established a service-learning partnership. Since then, I have ventured up northern Utah’s Blacksmith Fork Canyon with about a thousand 5th and 6th graders—a half-dozen students at a time—to spend the day with DWR biologists and managers.
Eagle Bancorp to Participate in the Jefferies Bank Summit

Dec 2, 2024 | globenewswire.com | Eric Newell

Bethesda, MD, Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eagle Bancorp, Inc., (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: EGBN), the Bethesda-based holding company of EagleBank, one of the largest community banks in the Washington D.C. area, today announced that Susan G. Riel, President and Chief Executive Officer and Eric R. Newell, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will participate in the Jefferies Bank Summit on December 9, 2024, and will hold a series of meetings with institutional investors.
Wild About Utah: Naomi Peak

Sep 9, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Eric Newell

ShareOne September day when I was a fifth grader, my dad pulled me out of school to climb the Pfeifferhorn, an 11,000 foot peak in the Wasatch Range. That was the most meaningful and defining day of my elementary school experience. Years later, when I first arrived in Logan, my younger sister Heather and I climbed Naomi Peak the day before our USU classes started. We made it an annual habit. At just under 10,000 feet elevation, Naomi Peak is the highest point in the Bear River Mountains.
Wild About Utah: Naomi Peak

Sep 9, 2024 | upr.org | Eric Newell

One September day when I was a fifth grader, my dad pulled me out of school to climb the Pfeifferhorn, an 11,000 foot peak in the Wasatch Range. That was the most meaningful and defining day of my elementary school experience. Years later, when I first arrived in Logan, my younger sister Heather and I climbed Naomi Peak the day before our USU classes started. We made it an annual habit. At just under 10,000 feet elevation, Naomi Peak is the highest point in the Bear River Mountains.
Wild About Utah: Mountain goats in northern Utah?

Jul 8, 2024 | upr.org | Eric Newell

Mid-September, 2016, while rambling in a seldom-traveled area of the Mount Naomi Wilderness, my son Nate asked, “Dad, what’s the coolest animal you’ve ever seen in the Bear River Mountains?”“Oh, all the regular creatures you’d expect,” I said. “Deer, elk, moose, coyotes, porcupines, lots of cat tracks, and a couple of badgers.”We took a few more steps and I glanced at the cliff bands above. Atop a limestone crag was the unmistakable massive shoulders and white wool of a Rocky Mountain goat.
Wild About Utah: A sense of where you are

May 14, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Eric Newell

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Wild About Utah: A sense of where you are

May 14, 2024 | upr.org | Eric Newell

I arrived in Logan, Utah for winter quarter in 1994—after history professor Ross Peterson recruited my three sisters and I to Utah State University, despite the fact that our dad was a University of Utah professor and Dean. I was the final piece of Ross’ coup and he flashed a satiating grin when I first visited him on campus.