MILWAUKEE — Longtime anchor Shannon Sims will be leaving TMJ4 News in November, the station announced Tuesday.

Shannon started as a weekend anchor at TMJ4 in 2013. A few years later, she would anchor hours of live breaking news coverage when the Sherman Park neighborhood erupted in violence in August of 2016.

A year later, Shannon launched the station’s public affairs program, 414WARD. She moderated debates featuring candidates for the U.S. Senate and Wisconsin Governor in both 2018 and 2022. In 2019, Shannon led TMJ4's year-long coverage of Wisconsin’s drunk driving epidemic known as Project: Drive Sober, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Interactivity.

In 2021, Shannon hosted the first-ever broadcast of Milwaukee’s Juneteenth Parade. That same year, she reported from P

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