Janet Shamlian Biography
Janet Shamlian is a CBS News correspondent who contributes to CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News. She previously worked as an NBC News correspondent, reporting for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC.
How old is Janet Shamlian? – Age
She is 59 years old as of 14 May 2021. She was born in 1962 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States.
Janet Shamlian Parents – Education
Janet Shamlian was born and raised in Park Ridge, Illinois. Shamlian attended Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism, where she was the 2016 commencement speaker.
Who is Janet Shamlian Married to? – Husband
Shamlian has been married to LeRoy Melcher III since 1991. She is a native of Chicago who now resides in Houston with her husband and five children.
Janet Shamlian Salary
She earns an annual salary of 1 million.
Janet Shamlian Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2 million.
Janet Shamlian Career
Shamlian’s reporting can be found on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including CBS Mornings, the CBS Evening News, and CBSN, the network’s 24-hour streaming news service. Shamlian has won several prestigious journalism awards, including a Peabody, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, and several Emmys.
Shamlian has covered many of the most important national and international stories of our time over the course of his three-decade career. She recently covered a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, for CBS News. She previously covered the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Florida, as well as Hurricane Katrina and the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma.
She was the first American journalist to arrive at the scene of the Bastille Day terror attack in Nice, France, in 2016. Shamlian spent a decade at NBC News, where she reported for “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” and MSNBC. Shamlian previously worked at WBBM-TV, a CBS affiliate in Chicago, and KHOU-TV, a CBS affiliate in Houston. She also worked as a weekend news anchor for Houston’s KPRC-TV. Shamlian began her career in television at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids.