Janet Shamlian Biography
Janet Shamlian works for CBS News and is based in Houston, Texas. 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.
Janet Shamlian Age
Shamlian is 59 years old as of 2021. She was born on 14 May 1962 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States.
Janet Shamlian Height
Shamlian stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (1.67m) and Weighs 132 lb (60 kg).
Janet Shamlian Family
Shamlian was born and raised in Park Ridge, Illinois. She has not shared any information regarding her loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Janet Shamlian Husband
Shamlian is married to an attorney named LeRoy Melcher III, who lived directly behind the station, while in Houston. She jokes that the only reason they met was that she was always working. They married in 1991 and relocated to Chicago, where Shamlian worked at NBC-owned WBBM-TV. Shamlian and her husband relocated to Houston in 1997, where she worked part-time for KPRC-TV. When she became pregnant with her second child, she decided to leave journalism and become a full-time mother. Shamlian spent the next seven years caring for her growing family of five children.
Janet Shamlian Education
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.
Janet Shamlian Salary
Shamlian earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Janet Shamlian Net Worth
Shamlian has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Janet Shamlian BJ ’84
Shamlian, BJ ’84, stands in front of a windowless plane in a New Mexico aircraft hangar in 2013. The plane, the size of a semi-truck, is mounted on blocks and bears the US Air Force symbol. He is reporting on the contentious drone pilot training taking place at Holloman Air Force Base. The screen cuts to NBC anchor Willie Geist, who is sitting behind the desk on the Today Show set.
Janet Shamlian College Career
When Shamlian first arrived on the University of Missouri campus in 1980, she immediately got involved by joining a sorority. Her senior year, she was also a member of the homecoming steering committee with fellow MU graduate (and singer-songwriter) Sheryl Crow. Shamlian was preoccupied with her broadcast journalism classes, despite her involvement on campus. Her juggling act of school, extracurriculars, and 15 hours a week at KOMU provided her with her first big taste of what it takes to manage a demanding workload.
Shamlian was reporting for KOMU in college when the newsroom received word of a single-engine plane crash. She set out on her own, carrying the bulky, 1980s-era camera equipment to the accident site in the woods. She had to fight her way through the thick brush while trying not to sink her high heels into the ground. She set up her tripod, shot b-roll and a standup, and then returned to the newsroom to write and edit the piece. Shamlian claims that the final package she created was the best work on her tape by the time she graduated.
Janet Shamlian Career
During her time at CBS News, she covered the El Paso Walmart and Gilroy Garlic Festival shootings, as well as the California wildfires. Shamlian was a stay-at-home mom to five children before joining NBC News. She worked as a reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago, KHOU-TV and KPRC-TV in Houston, and WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before starting a family.
Shamlian interviewed Arianne Zucker in October 2016, the actress about whom Donald Trump made suggestive remarks in a 2005 Access Hollywood video. She also reported from the scene of the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016 and from France, where she was vacationing with her family, just hours after the 2016 Nice truck attack.
She previously reported for NBC on national and international events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. On NBC Nightly News in 2007, Shamlian conducted the first evening network broadcast interview with Michelle Obama, the wife of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Shamlian was hired by CBS News as a correspondent based in Houston in July 2019.
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