{"id":388926,"date":"2026-07-28T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:44:11","slug":"former-fox-26-reporter-shelby-rose-joins-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388926\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FOX 26 reporter Shelby Rose joins Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rose announced the move on July 15, telling followers she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stay away for too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re looking at [Houston Public Media&#8217;s] new midday news anchor,&#8221; Rose wrote on\u00a0Instagram. &#8220;Stoked to be broadcasting both local and statewide newscasts across all Texas NPR stations. Let&#8217;s doooo it!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/tessa-barrera-sunny-99-1-22349376.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Public Media<\/a> confirmed to\u00a0Chron that Rose joined the station on July 6 and made her on-air debut about two weeks ago. As midday anchor, she delivers local newscasts for Houston listeners while also anchoring statewide reports carried across Texas NPR stations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shelby is an experienced and established journalist in the Houston area with an extensive network of sources that is already making an immediate impact on our local coverage,&#8221; Houston Public Media Station Manager Laurie Ramirez told Chron. &#8220;She is a passionate journalist who aligns with our mission to inform and connect communities across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/food\/article\/houston-texas-roadhouse-ransoms-22356064.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Greater Houston area<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Rose, the move was driven by the chance to spend more time on stories beyond the daily news cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really struck by the opportunity to go beyond the headlines and dig deeper into the stories that affect our community,&#8221; she told Chron, adding that after witnessing significant changes across the broadcast industry, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/kprc-2-departures-2026-22340190.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Public Media<\/a> offered &#8220;an opportunity to be a part of an organization that lives up to the true foundations of journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rose spent three years at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/article\/will-kunkel-fox-26-espn-22328943.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FOX 26<\/a> after joining the station in June 2022 from\u00a0KATV in Little Rock, Ark. Before that, she worked as a multimedia journalist at KX News in Bismarck, N.D.<\/p>\n<p>A Texas native, Rose graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/us-news-global-college-rankings-22300951.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">University of Texas at San Antonio<\/a> with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in digital communication and multimedia. While at\u00a0UTSA, she wrote and photographed sports for the university&#8217;s independent student newspaper, The Paisano, and interned at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/fox-26-houston-new-reporter-22295677.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FOX 26<\/a> before returning to the station as a reporter years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rose announced the move on July 15, telling followers she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stay away for too long.&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-388926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}