Tina Shelton is a US-American television journalist and stage personality, known mainly as reporter at KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawai, the state's Fox News affiliate. Shelton is also a theatrical actress, appearing on various live theatrical productions.
Career
Education Shelton is a graduate of the University of Hawai'i journalism program (Kapiʻolani Community College and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) and was recognized as an "Outstanding Young Alumna" in the University of Hawaiʻi Distinguished Alumni Awards in 1989. She is the only journalist to be recognized as a University of Hawaiʻi Distinguished Alumni.
News casting Shelton has been a mainstay in Hawaii television news reporting for over three decades. She got her start in broadcast news in 1977 at KHET (PBS Hawaii), and subsequently worked at KHVH news radio and Oceanic Cable Television. She later reported for KGMB-TV, KITV, and KHON-TV. She was known for her investigative reporting and covering the Federal District Court of the Hawaii District.- Her work has been nominated for regional Emmy awards and she has won several local reporting awards. She retired from news casting in 2007.
Acting Shelton is active in the Community Theater. She played Mrs. Anna Leonowens in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. She has also headlined in local productions of Guys and Dolls, Camelot and the musical Once Upon a Mattress with the Army Community Theater.- - -
Public relations On June 27, 2007, Shelton was appointed the director of public relations by the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She served as the institution's Communications Director before retiring from the medical school in early 2020.
Family Shelton is married to Steve Beaudry. They were married on July 30, 1994, in Honolulu.
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