Janet Shamlian

Janet Shamlian is a CBS News correspondent based in Houston, Texas. Shamlian reports appear on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including “CBS Mornings,” “CBS Evening News,” and the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News’ leading streaming news service 24/7.

Shamlian has won some of the most prestigious journalism awards, including a Peabody, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, and several Emmy Awards.

In a career spanning three decades, Shamlian has covered many of the most important national and international histories of our time. He recently covered the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, for CBS News.

He previously landed in Florida to cover the Pulse Nightclub massacre, and covered Hurricane Katrina and the tornado that devastated Moore, Okla. She was the first American journalist on the scene of the 2016 Bastille Day terrorist attack in Nice, France. .

Prior to joining CBS News, Shamlian spent a decade on NBC News, where he reported on “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” and MSNBC.

Earlier in his career, Shamlian reported on WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, and KHOU-TV, a CBS subsidiary in Houston. She also worked as a weekend news presenter at KPRC-TV in Houston.

Shamlian began his career on WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids.

Shamlian is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A native of Chicago, she now calls Houston her home, where she lives with her husband and five children.