Gio Benitez Biography
Gio Benitez is an American broadcast journalist and ABC News correspondent based in New York. He reports for all ABC News programs and platforms including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline” and “20/20.”
He is known to be an award-winning reporter and has covered a wide range of stories for the network, including the Pulse nightclub shooting, El Chapo’s underground escape from a Mexican prison, and the Boston Marathon bombing. He frequently breaks exclusive investigative stories as part of Good Morning America’s series, “GMA Investigates.” Some of these investigations have led to massive consumer product safety recalls.
He was a reporter for WFOR, the CBS-owned-and-operated TV station in Miami, where he covered the 2012 Presidential election and reported extensively on the Trayvon Martin case before joining ABC News in 2013.
Benitez traveled to Haiti to cover relief efforts following the devastating earthquake in January 2010. His return flight to Miami was turned into a rescue mission, as he traveled with injured Haitian evacuees to the island of Curaçao. He was the first reporter to ever shoot a TV story entirely with an iPhone in June 2009.
Benitez received two national Emmy Awards, and two regional Emmy Awards, and is an eight-time nominee. Most notably, Benitez was nominated for his investigative series on alleged police brutality which resulted in two Miami officers being forced to turn in their guns and badges.
Benitez was an investigative producer at WFOR and worked on stories involving Medicare fraud, public safety, and government corruption before becoming a reporter. He began at the station as an Emma L. Bowen Foundation work-study scholar.
Gio Benitez Age
He was born on October 29, 1985, in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents. He is 37 years old.
Gio Benitez Education
Gio is a 2004 graduate of Miami Coral Park High School. Benitez graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Florida International University in 2008. He is fluent in both English and Spanish.
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In 2013 is when Benitez joined ABC News. He is known to have covered a wide range of stories for the network, including the Boston Marathon bombing, the Alabama child held hostage underground in an eight-day standoff, the American mother stuck in a Mexican jail and nearly every major snowstorm that swept the nation during the winter of 2013.
Benitez was a reporter for WFOR, the CBS-owned-and-operated TV station in Miami before joining ABC News in 2013, where he covered the 2012 Presidential election and reported extensively on the Trayvon Martin case.
Benitez traveled to Haiti in January 2010, to cover relief efforts following the devastating earthquake. When he was returning to Miami his return was turned into a rescue mission, as he traveled with injured Haitian evacuees to the island of Curaçao. He was the first reporter ever to shoot a TV news story entirely with an iPhone in June 2009.
Benitez won two regional Emmy Awards and is an eight-time nominee. Most notably, he was nominated for his investigative series on alleged police brutality which resulted in two Miami officers being forced to turn in their guns and badges.
Benitez was an investigative producer at WFOR and worked on stories involving Medicare fraud, public safety, and government corruption before becoming a reporter. He began at the station as an Emma L. Bowen Foundation work-study scholar. Benitez’s first on-air job was actually on the radio, on the nationally syndicated consumer electronics show Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline.
Gio Benitez Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Gio Benitez Salary
His salary ranges between $500,000 and $1 million.
Gio Benitez Wife
In September 2015 Benitez engaged DiDario. The couple had toured Europe when Benitez surprised the love of his life with a proposal. He dropped to one knee in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and asked DiDario to be his life partner.
After the engagement, they disclosed that they will be getting married on the 16th day of April 2016 in Miami. They promised that the marriage would be magical, and it was.
ABC News announced on 17th April 2016, that their Benitez married DiDario the previous day inside the historic Walton House in Miami, Florida.
Gio Benitez Wedding
Benitez and Tommy DiDario became engaged on September 17, 2015, in Paris. After dating for eight months the couple was married in a ceremony in Miami on April 16, 2016.
David Muir Gio Benitez
ABC’s anchor David Muir is rumored to be gay as he once heard to be in a relationship with his co-worker Gio Benitez. However, the story that amazed millions of their fans is that Gio Benitez got married to a menswear blogger as well as an actor Tommy DiDario.
Gio Benitez Nationality
Benitez nationality is American and his ethnicity is North American.
Gio Benitez Height
Benitez stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches.
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