Meet Matt Renoux
Matt Renoux Is One of the Incredible Mountain Town People That We Featured In our 15 Year Anniversary Issue This Past Spring
By Lisa Blake
As we put the 15 Year Anniversary Issue of Mountain Town Magazine together this past spring, 9NEWS reporter and Silverthorne resident Matt Renoux is setting up strategic camera angles in Milan, Italy, covering the 2026 Winter Olympics. No stranger to the games, the veteran storyteller has been nine times before, reporting from Olympic sidelines in Salt Lake, Vancouver, Paris and beyond.
A longtime Denver 9NEWS mountain correspondent, Renoux is celebrated for his objective reporting on World Cup ski events, Colorado affordable housing, highway safety, foliage and travel stories.
We caught Renoux as he was packing for Milan to chat about life in the mountains and in front of the camera.
Mountain Town: What’s the scoop on Matt Renoux? How did you land here? How did you become a reporter?
Matt Renoux: I grew up in Pueblo, was a business major at CSU where I found theater and journalism, thanks to a guidance counselor. My first job was in Colorado Springs in 1996 at Channel 13 KRDO. I started working for 9NEWS’ Western Slope bureau in Glenwood Springs in 1999 before it moved to Summit County and became the Mountain Newsroom. We used to have an office in Silverthorne with a satellite truck and a driver. Now, it’s just me in Silverthorne working out of my house with a little camera and a laptop.
Mountain Town: Was there a big spark or moment when you knew “this is what I’m supposed to be doing”?
Matt Renoux: I felt that back in college working on the student-run campus TV station. You shoot, report, anchor, produce and direct. When I was out telling someone’s story, I felt really alive. I was a waiter at the time and I really wanted to get into a paid $5 a story campus reporting gig, so I didn’t have to do the overnight shift at Perkins. That was a rough shift in a college town.
Mountain Town: You’re heading to your tenth Olympics as a reporter. Give us the highlight reel. What memories stand out in your mind?
Matt Renoux: Paris was by far the best Olympics I’ve ever covered. I’ve been to Sochi, Russia, to South Korea. But it was Paris that really stuck with me. It was the summer games, spread out all over the city. They did a spectacular job with those games. And the food in Paris—you’re walking to your live shot and you pick up a crepe or a croissant. Incredible. London is a close second.
There was an Aspen snowboarder named Chris Klug, the first liver transplant athlete to compete in the Olympics. I remember jumping up and down celebrating him.
Mikaela Shiffrin is another really fun story. I was there in Sochi when she was just 18. I’ve known her now for a long time. It was raining before she went and I had to find a trash bag to wear. She raced and won gold. Mom and dad were there, crying. It was her first real step into stardom.
Mountain Town: What’s the energy like going into the 2026 winter games in Italy?
Matt Renoux: This is the most spread out Olympics ever. We’re going to try and get up to Cortina to cover downhill skiing. There’s a train, bus, car, lots of logistics to get up there. I’ll be in Italy for a month. We’ll spend several days setting up workspace and live shots. Then I’ll do morning and night news live shots. A daily special. Two half-hour specials. It’s several hours of content. Like putting a movie together.
I’ll get up around 4:30 a.m., hop on a train to downtown Milan, have my first live shot at 6 a.m. for the 9NEWS night broadcast. And put together the morning segment and run around all day. I’ll work until 10 or 11 p.m. and then do it all over again. For a month.
Mountain Town: What do you want to be known for as a journalist?
Matt Renoux: In this day and age when everyone is so divisive, I would hope that I’d be seen as more of a journalist that’s just a good storyteller. Someone that’s objective, seeing both sides of the story. But more than anything, I like to report on stories that I think are fun and I take the viewer along for that journey. I get to work from Summit County, so there are a lot of fun stories to tell.
Mountain Town: What’s something not a lot of people know about you?
Matt Renoux: That I flunked out of business school in college. But then I rallied and found journalism and did really well. Also, that I’m a fifth-generation resident of Colorado. That has really kept me here. I’ve never wanted to move to Philly, LA, or Chicago to report. This is home.
Publishers Note: Thanks Matt for always keeping everyone informed about what is happening in Colorado’s mountain town communities, especially on those cold, early mornings in the winter!
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