Janet Shamlian

Janet Shamlian ,55, was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 14th May, 1962. Shamliam graduated from Maine South High in Park Ridge, Illinois. She then went to Missouri School of Journalism to receive bachelor's degree in journalism. Here, she was commencement speaker in 2016.

Janet Shamlian married LeRoy Melcher III in 1991 . They are blessed with five children. She lives in Houston with her five children and a loving husband.

She started her career at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Later she joined CBS station KHOU-TV in Houston. However, Janet returned to Chicago as a reporter for WBBM-TV.

In October 2016, she interviewed Arianne Zucker, the actress who Donald Trump made suggestive remarks about in an Access Hollywood video recorded in 2005. Previously, she has reported on national and international events for NBC, covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

In 2007, Shamlian conducted the first evening network broadcast interview with Michelle Obama,on the NBC Nightly News.

She is active on different social media but she mainly uses Twitter to communicate with her followers ; she has more than 9.3k followers in Twitter.