| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Lindsay Shively |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year she was born. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Single / Husband / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 1 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
| Where is Lindsay Shively now? | Monday through Friday, she anchors 41 Action News’ morning newscast. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Lindsay Shively is an award-winning news anchor, reporter, and producer from Kansas City in Missouri.
- Smart, hard-working, and driven, Lindsay is very passionate about her career and does a great job of balancing it with her personal life.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Shively was raised in Clay County, Missouri, in a city called Liberty but, she considers Kansas City to be her home.
- She is married to her husband, Sebastian. They have a daughter named Svea.
- Lindsay and Sebastian also have two Weiner dogs named Rocco and Ruby.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- When she lived in Liberty, Lindsay attended the local high school and spent time working as a reporter and anchor for the local community’s cable channel.
- She graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, with a Bachelor’s degree in politics and journalism.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Lindsay’s career began in Columbia, Missouri, where she worked as a reporter for NPR Affiliate stations. She also worked for the KOMU station as an anchor and reporter for two years.
- As her career took off, Lindsay began traveling all over the USA, reporting on several stories from tornadoes to NCAA sports events.
- She reported Hurricane Katrina from Louisiana in 2005 and went on to chase tornadoes back home in Kansas City. Lindsay was also the lead reporter during the 2008 elections.
- After leaving KOMU, Lindsay went on to work for 41 Action News and spent some time in Wichita, covering the trial of the murder of George Tiller, a local abortion doctor who was killed by a man named Scott Roeder.
- She also covered the 2011 Missouri Tiger’s football season and traveled to Washington D.C. as a sports reporter.
- Shively eventually left 41 Action News and went on to Topeka, Kansas, where she joined the team at WIBW, first as a reporter and weekend anchor and eventually as a weekday anchor. During her time in Topeka, she had the honor of co-anchoring and producing a Topeka Police Department holiday crime program which covered property theft in the local community.
- In 2009, Lindsay became a member of the KSHB team as a news anchor and reporter.
- She had the honor of traveling to Afghanistan in the Middle East in 2014 to cover the war on behalf of the Missouri National Guard.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- In 2009, she won the Kansas City Press Club’s Gold Award for her coverage of an arson-related incident in a Kansas town involving a local church, which was over a century old.
- She also received a 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award from Manor Hill Elementary School in Liberty, Missouri.
- When she is not working, Lindsay loves to give back to her local community. She regularly emcee’s on behalf of the Children’s Place at the Ice Cream Dreamery event.
- Lindsay is also a board member for Kappa Holiday Homes Tour as well as the Northland Symphony Orchestra.
- She speaks multiple languages and is also an avid explorer who enjoys couponing.
Please don’t hold this against me. I am from Excelsior and had a great time with sports with Liberty. You’re wonderful on the news.
Your fan,
Jim