Saira Anwer Biography
Once a person gets their hands on something they love, they can achieve anything possible within their work. Such a combination is the reason some people achieve extraordinary results. Saira Anwer knew the price of becoming a journalist and throughout her career, she has been paying the price to give what her audience needs most. She has done breaking news, covered extreme weather conditions, interviewed high-profile people, and covered robberies. The decorated journalist is working as a reporter and a fill-in anchor at WPLG. She has previously worked at WMTC and KMOT.
Personal Details
Saira Anwer is a first-generation Immigrant born on 10th November 1990. Her Parents migrated from Pakistan to the United States and settled in Galesburg Illinois where Saira and her big sister Aamna Anwer were born. Living as an immigrant, Saira and her sister saw education as a way to navigate the United States corporate world.
She joined Galesburg High School and later the University of Illinois where she studied Broadcast Journalism. Her personal life has also been thriving as her career life. She entered the year 2024 as a wife to her long-time lover Jason Van Damn.
Career
As a student, Saira began putting her skills into practice when she got an internship at WSPD and later at WQAD. She got her first full-time employment opportunity at Grat Television where she was a 6 pm and 10 pm reporter and anchor.
She created a show called Medical Minute Saira and served at the station for close to two years before moving to WMTC, an NBC affiliate as lead weekend anchor and a reporter. She had a special Travel Segment called the Road Trippin with Saira. After close to three years, she moved to Miami to work for WPLG as a TV News Reporter.
Throughout her career as a journalist, she has covered stories that have earned her an Emmy Nomination two times and a Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Award for excellence in reporting. She has covered major stories like the wall-to-wall coverage of the Condominium that collapsed in June 2021 at Surfside, Florida. 18 people died in the Collapse.
Saira has also covered weird stories like that of a man who climbed a fire fighting truck and refused to come down and the story of officials in Fort Lauderdale who moved an 85-year-old tree. Saira has also done sad news like the death of an 85-year-old who was killed by an alligator and the plane crash in Miramar.
Saira Anwer is evidence of a woman who has held on to her courage to pursue her dream as a journalist. She is an inspiration to young Muslim girls who desire to chase their dreams. She is also an Epilepsy Ambassador.
Saira creates awareness of the existence of the health condition. She participates by encouraging people to wear purple shirts or paint their pumpkins purple and share about epilepsy. Her expertise in journalism has also been seen in others like Brittany Ghirolli and Casey Buscher.
Summary of Personal Details
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Nationality: American
Religion: Muslim
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Children: 0
Occupation: Journalist
Height: approx 5 feet and 6 inches
Salary: approx $60,000
