If we believe that the majority of humanity is plagued by ignorance, and they are, journalism is the profession that brings that ignorance to light. There’s a saying that goes “The worst kind of ignorance is not knowing what you don’t know” and that’s the human race until every night after we’ve spent our day in the silent ignorance of the events that occur around our world during the day. Then the journalists, who have made it their mission and their life objective to cure our daily ignorance, report the state of the world to us. The world is filled with many professions that in their own way do a noble job, but none compares to the illumination a journalist brings to our lives as he grabs the headlines in a sweet baritone. One of the people in this noble profession is ABC News reporter Kendis Gibson.
Who is Kendis Gibson?
Until recently, Kendis Gibson was just an endearing pretty face you saw on TV every morning and night as he tells you in different ways that the world is terrible and that humans are ruining the planet. The ABC News reporter, born September 6, 1972 in Central America, Belize City, Belize, has come under fire for some of his recent comments about popular K-Pop music sensation, BTS.
The reporter, who is generally known for reporting the news instead of being it, was born to parents Alrick Gibson, who was a cabinetmaker in Belize City (one of the best) and his mother Hortense Gibson, a simple housewife . He entered the world as the youngest of six children and spent his childhood in Belize City like any normal child, playing and making memories with his siblings.
In search of greener pastures, his parents moved the family to the United States in the 1980s where he completed high school and went to the State University of New York, Oswego where he studied political science, earning a degree in the discipline in 1994. After graduating, Kendis Gibson sought work in one of the noblest fields in the world – journalism. He applied for and got a job at NBC station in Rochester, New York and spent three years as a reporter for the station, bringing the news to New Yorkers’ ears before moving to Philadelphia and joining WTXF as a morning anchor and news reporter.
His stint at WTXF Philadelphia proved to be a big one in his career as he won two Emmy Awards for Excellence in News Reporting and Sports Feature. A completed stint in Philadelphia meant a return to New York for the New York-raised Belizean turned American. He became a senior reporter for the WNBC news channel.
A journalist’s pedigree and career are measured against the stories they have told during their career and how they have told them. While at WNBC, Kendis had the chance to tell some of the biggest stories of his career, including the unfortunate Concorde crash and the generational tragedy of 9/11, 2001.
Possibly following his coverage of the attack, Kendis Gibson was approached and signed by the giant news network, CNN in January 2002. He joined the network and became a journalist, news anchor and its entertainment anchor . It gave Kendis the national exposure that so many aspiring journalists crave in their careers, he spent three years at CNN, covering events like the glamorous Grammy and Academy Awards.
His later career moved before and after leaving CNN, including as a host for HGTV’s I Want That and KSWB-TV News.
Gibson left CNN and joined another national network in June 2010, he joined CBS News, working in Los Angeles as a correspondent for CBS Newspath. He spent just a year there and joined WJLA, an ABC affiliate that worked in Washington before joining his current workplace, ABC News as a World News Now correspondent and anchor.
Is he gay or married to a woman?
When it comes to Kendis Gibson and her personal life and relationships, he shrouded it in mystery. The reporter has dealt with the rumors that he is gay by mostly denying them and insisting that he is straight, however, many still believe that for a man who has achieved so much in his professional life, he seems genuinely determined to keep his personal life away from the media. He is currently considered single as he has not revealed any attachment to any woman.
