Janet Shamlian

Janet Shamlian is a national correspondent for NBC News and appears on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC. She is a contributor to the prime time news magazine Dateline NBC and to CNBC, the business news channel owned and operated by NBC Universal.

Shamlian is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is a graduate of Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, the same high school which graduated Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Shamlian conducted the first evening network broadcast interview with Michelle Obama, the wife of Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on the NBC Nightly News.

Shamlian has covered national and international stories for NBC including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, the 2005 subway and bus bombings in London and the deadly tornado in Greensburg, Kansas.

Shamlian is married with five children and lives in Houston but often reports from Chicago and New York.