Shelley Brown, FOX 8's weekend news anchor, joined the FOX 8 News Team in September 2008, the day after Hurricane Gustav made landfall in Louisiana.
Shelley is a native of New Orleans and is back home after working at WTOL-TV in Toledo, OH where she was the weekday 5:30 evening anchor and a general assignment reporter.
Shelley is a graduate of Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans and Louisiana State University.
She is a three-time Edward R. Murrow recipient for "Best Newscast, News 11 at Five," a series of investigative reports, "Kids for Sale," and "Katrina: Back Home," a first-person report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Like so many, Shelley's entire family lost their homes and survived the storm. She's also won several Associated Press awards.
Before earning a degree in broadcast journalism from LSU, Shelley worked for Court TV and WNYW-TV FOX 5 in New York City.
During her first on-air job at a small cable TV station in Houma, LA, Shelley reported, produced and anchored the station's 6:30 evening newscast. She also hosted a 30-minute talk show. She then went on to anchor the weekday morning news at KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, LA. She mentored young aspiring journalists there in the station's teen reporter program before arriving in Toledo.
Shelley has covered major stories such as the execution of a longtime death row inmate in Ohio to national stories, including the 2008 presidential primary, interviewing Hillary Clinton.
She's not just a television storyteller. Shelley studied Hawaiian dance growing up, learning to tell stories with swaying, rhythmic movements.
She is an alumna of Delta Zeta Sorority and was Vice President of LSU's Panhellenic Council in charge of overall LSU sorority recruitment.
Shelley is excited to be returning home to New Orleans at a crucial time in the city's history.
