Shara Park
Shara Park is a seven-time Emmy award-winning journalist who joined the KSL 5 News team in 2007. She is currently the anchor of KSL News at Noon and can also be seen reporting in Utah’s communities each day in KSL’s evening newscasts.
For nearly two decades, Shara has been on the front line of breaking news in Utah; from crime to wildfires, and everything in between. She has poured her heart into telling the stories that impact Utahns.
In 2022, Shara was part of KSL’s reporting team recognized with a National Emmy for their breaking news coverage of the violent riots in downtown Salt Lake City. In 2021 Shara traveled to Tokyo to cover the historic Olympic games happening amid a global pandemic. In 2019 Shara received a Regional Emmy for her work on the documentary Road to Recovery, which took an in-depth look at opioid abuse in Utah. In 2017, Shara traveled to London, covering the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge that killed a Utah man and injured his wife.
In 2016, Shara was on the ground in Pinedale, Wyoming, and the first to report the discovery of the missing UTA truck belonging to kidnapped and murdered UTA employee Kay Ricks. Shara’s investigative reporting in 2014 on the avalanche death of BYU student Ashleigh Cox led to the changes in Utah dispatch codes and an emergency phone installed in American Fork Canyon, and in 2013, Shara was embedded with Utah Task Force 1 as they responded to catastrophic flooding in Boulder, Colorado. In 2012, Shara traveled to Puyallup, Washington to cover the heartbreaking deaths of Susan Cox Powell’s two sons at the hands of their father.
Shara’s reporting on school safety and the Safe UT app is featured in a series of reports that won KSL the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Journalism. And twice, Shara has been awarded Best Reporter in Utah by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Utah Broadcasters Association.
Before joining KSL, Shara worked as a sports/news anchor for KCSG Television in St. George, Utah. Prior to that, she had the difficult task of living in Hawaii and working as an intern at KWXX Radio, and KPUA as a feature sportswriter. Shara also completed two sports internships at ABC 4 News in Utah.
Shara graduated from Northern Illinois University. While there she was recognized by the University as the 2004 Broadcaster of the Year for her work with the University’s broadcast program NTC, CNN Local Edition. While at NIU Shara also played volleyball for the Division I Huskies and was a member of the Track & Field Team.
Shara grew up in West Valley City, Utah and attended Granger High School. She currently lives in Sandy with her husband and two very energetic kids.
While Shara thrives in the chaos of breaking news, the most rewarding work she says she does is with Utah’s foster children. For the past five years, Shara has been the host of the Wednesday’s Child brand at KSL, spending time each week sharing the stories of children lingering in the foster care system. Shara says giving these children a voice, and helping them connect with forever families, means more to her than any award she’s ever received.
Shara takes a special interest in sharing the stories of those in our community who go above and beyond to bring others up, if you have a story idea you would like to share with her please email her at spark@ksl.com.
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