Shane Jones

Shane Jones anchors and produces the Saturday Morning News on Global Edmonton, our city's only live, local weekend morning newscast. He also reports during the week, and rejoined the Global Edmonton team in June of 2004.

Shane was first at the station, then ITV, six years earlier as a production assistant, while attending NAIT's Radio & Television program. It was his first job in broadcasting.

He later ventured up north to Fort McMurray, working as a videojournalist. Shane then moved down south to Medicine Hat to take a job as a 6.00 PM news anchor and producer. He returned to his hometown of Saskatoon for more anchoring and reporting experience before heading back to the City of Champions. Shane prides himself on his versatility as he reports and anchors both news and sports whenever needed.

Shane attended the University of Saskatchewan where he majored in Anatomy, but decided he didn't have the stomach for a career in medicine. He moved to Edmonton where he graduated from NAIT's Radio and Television program with honours. Being able to tell interesting stories and the latest news is an always changing aspect that Shane loves about his career.

One of the biggest news events in Edmonton's history, the massive MacEwan fire, broke one early morning in July 2007, when Shane was producing and preparing to anchor the Saturday Morning News.  Shane led Global Edmonton's first and exclusive live coverage of the inferno.  Our initial and follow-up coverage would later win a prestigious Prairie Regional Award in the Best Continuing Coverage category from the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). 

Always the athlete, Shane loves playing pretty much every sport created. His favourites include golf, football and hockey, as well as watching them all on TV. He's a huge Edmonton Oilers and Denver Broncos fan.

Proud to now be an Edmontonian, Shane is married and has two young energetic boys who keep him very busy when he's not at work.