Gigi Stone

Gigi Stone

Gigi Stone is an American television correspondent and anchor, currently working for ABC News.

Biography

Early life

Stone grew up in Manhattan, where she learned to speak French and Spanish. She received a Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the John M. Patterson Prize for Best Television documentary. A committed internationalist, she volunteered in a Peace Corps-style program in South America, and is a graduate of the Outward Bound training school [ [http://www.newsblab.com/newsworthy_mar04_week2.htm News Blab - NewsBlab.com A Blog about News ] ]

Early career

Stone's media career began with positions at MTV Networks, ABC News in Washington D.C., and for the public defender's office in New London, Connecticut.

Stone's first major job was as a general assignment news reporter for WWAY-TV-3, the ABC affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she trained as a volunteer firefighter and battled a blaze as part of a news series. For another high-profile story, she assisted in water rescue training at the Cherry Point marine base [ [http://www.newsblab.com/newsworthy_mar04_week2.htm News Blab - NewsBlab.com A Blog about News ] ]

From 1997 to March 2002, Stone worked at the New York 1 network, where she worked as the Queens correspondent.

ABC career

From April 2002 to July 2004, Stone reported business news for "Business Week TV" and "NewsOne", ABC News' affiliate news service. At Business Week TV, she wrote, produced and reported live daily business updates for WABC-TV and "", a national consumer affairs finance program for ABC affiliates.

Since 2004, Stone has worked as a correspondent and anchor at ABC News. She reports for various ABC News broadcasts, including World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America. She also works as an anchor for World News Now, ABC's overnight news program, as well as ABC News Now, the network's 24-hour news channel.

Stone has covered a wide range of issues, including jailhouse lawyers, Human Growth Hormone treatments [ [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/LegalCenter/story?id=2732920&page=1 ABC News: 'Jailhouse Lawyer' Lectures Harvard Law Students ] ] , teenage girls' sexuality, Muslims in the US military, and public school teachers' pay. [ [http://tyndallreport.com/tyndallsearch/?m=1&reporter=Gigi+Stone The Tyndall Report - Search ] ] She has anchored live, breaking news events, from the death of Pope John Paul II to Hurricane Katrina, and has produced hard-hitting investigative reports on pension shortfalls, health insurance fraud and predatory lending practices.

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