Laural Porter KGW, Age, Partner, Kids, Family, Net Worth

Laural Porter Biography

Laural Porter is an American journalist working for KGW in Portland, Oregon as a weeknight anchor on KGW News. She also co-anchors KGW News at 11.

Laural Porter Age / Birthday

Porter manages to keep information regarding her dates of birth away from the limelight. It is therefore not known when she celebrates her birthday and how old she is at the moment. Judging from her appearance, she might be in her 40s.

Laural Porter Height / Measurements

Porter is of average body stature and stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 6 inches.

Laural Porter Husband

Porter is happily married to her sweet husband, Mike. She manages to keep information regarding her marriage away from the public. However, we will update information about her marriage once it’s available.

Laural Porter Kids / Children

Porter and her husband Mike are blessed with four adult kids, Will, Ali, Meghan, and Kaitlin. Her first daughter Meg is a wife to Gabe and a mother to Fergus Robert. Ali, her second daughter is also married to Nick and has a daughter named Lucy Lyon. On the other hand, Kaitlin and her husband Casey have three daughters Eloise, Isla Violet, and Madeline Rose.

Laural Porter Family / Relatives

Porter’s biological father is Robert W. Porter, he worked as a Navy fighter pilot. Sadly, her stepdad, Bill Houlihan passed away due to leukemia and her step-mom to breast cancer. She ran marathons for the Leukemia Society’s “Team in Training” for her stepdad’s remembrance.

Laural Porter Career

Porter works at KGW in Portland, Oregon as an anchor. She anchors for the station on weeknights and hosts KGW’s current affairs show “Straight Talk,” which airs Saturday evenings at 6:30 p.m. For best host/moderator of a straight talk, she won the 2015 Northwest Regional Emmy.

Also, she won the 2015 regional Edward R. Murrow Award together with photojournalist Kurt Austin for Feature Reporting. In 2011, she was honored with the prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award for feature reporting. From the Mental Health Association, she earned a national award for her coverage of mental health issues.

Moreover, she won the northwest regional Emmy Award six times. She has obtained many awards from the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, the Society of Professional Journalism, and the Associated Press, and awards during her anchoring and anchoring years in Idaho. Porter was invited to interview President Obama at the White House in February 2015 and that’s when one of the highlights of her career came.

Only she met the President and members of his Cabinet and then report live from the White House. His Holiness, The Dalai Lama invited her to moderate an interfaith panel discussion at the University of Portland in 2013. She got presented by his Holiness with a traditional Tibetan Khata, a symbol of respect and gratitude.

She began as a news writer in radio at KSON radio in San Diego. At KIFI-TV in Idaho Falls, Idaho where she took her first television position doing weather reports and feature reports called “Porter Reports.” Porter anchored and reported at WESH-TV (NBC) in Orlando, Florida, KTVB (NBC) in Boise, Idaho, and KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, California.

She has run the Portland Marathon several times and also runs marathons for the Leukemia Society’s “Team in Training” and over the years raised $7,000 for the Society. From the University of California at Santa Barbara she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications.

Laural Porter’s Salary

Porter receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.

Laural Porter’s Net Worth

Through Porter’s career as an anchor, she has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $1 Million and $ 5 Million.

Laural Porter’s Plastic Surgery

Rumors have been spreading, that she underwent plastic surgery for different looks. Porter has decided to keep her mouth shut regarding the issue and let the gossipers do the talking. We will update this information once it’s available.