R.I.P.: KOMO Seattle News Anchor Jane Shannon

Jane Shannon

UPDATE 8/22/15 6A: Veteran broadcast journalist Jane Shannon anchored the afternoon news on KOMO Newsradio Wednesday as normal and then returned to her home in Federal Way. Co-workers at KOMO arrived Thursday, but Shannon did not. After calling her home authorities were finally called for a welfare check.

Shannon was found at home where it is believed she died peacefully of natural causes.

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Veteran afternoon KOMO 1000 AM / 97.7 FM news anchor Jane Shannon passed away unexpectedly this week.

An Oregon native, Shannon started her radio career at KITI in Centralia, where she was an anchor and the news director. Before coming to KOMO News Radio in 2010, Shannon worked at KXXO-FM in Olympia, KING AM in Seattle, and was a Morning News co-host at KIRO.

Former KOMO News Radio program director Paul Duckworth called Shannon an outstanding talent and a dear friend.

"When I met her the first time in the radio station, she was everything I thought she would be. She was smart. She was always looking for stories that made people feel things," Duckworth said.

Listeners around the Northwest knew Shannon as a passionate journalist, whose mission was always to find out why the story mattered to you. Her friends and co-workers knew her not only for her consummate professionalism, but as a friend who will leave a large hole in the KOMO family, according to a story at komonews.com.