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Janet Ellen Shamlian (born May 14, 1962) is a national correspondent for NBC News and appears on The Today Show and the NBC Nightly News. She is a contributor to the prime-time news magazine Dateline NBC and to the business network CNBC.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, she was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a Chicago suburb best known as the home town of Hillary Clinton. Shamlian graduated from Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, and received her college degree, a bachelor's in journalism, from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri Columbia.
Shamlian began her career at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before joining CBS station KHOU-TV in Houston. She returned to Chicago as a reporter for WBBM-TV. She left WBBM to return to Texas and start a family. In Houston, she worked for KPRC-TV before leaving the station when pregnant with her second child. She subsequently had three more children, all five born within 7 years.