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Alan Gionet
Award winning journalist Alan Gionet is CBS4's Weekend Anchor and and the driving force behind CBS4's critically acclaimed news franchise "Good Question." "If you're a television journalist, CBS4 is recognized as one of the greatest places to work the nation, because of the quality of reporting, the videography and the team atmosphere," Alan says. "This is a great group of people who are smart and care about the Colorado I love." That's what helped bring him back after he left Colorado for eight years.
Alan has been in news for 20 years. He started in a small market in Mississippi where he lugged the camera and the video recording deck around, shot, wrote and edited stories; then put together the newscast. He also anchored and reported in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he exposed deplorable conditions in the state's foster care system resulting in more vigorous enforcement on behalf of children. Prior to his first stint at CBS4 in the early 1990s, Alan worked as an investigative reporter in Providence, Rhode Island, where he exposed tax breaks for non-profits.
While at CBS4 in the 1990s, Alan reported extensively on forest fires and was the first to report that the firefighters killed on Storm King Mountain did not get critical information about the changing weather conditions that put them in danger. He also showed how registered sex offenders were often not living where they showed their registered addresses.
In the late 1990s, Alan left to serve as main anchor in Jacksonville, Florida where he was later also named nightside managing editor. He logged many hours during hurricanes and the 2000 election controversy, when he first revealed voting irregularities in Duval County. His reporting on endangered North Atlantic right whales brought national focus to a little-known species which has only an estimated 300 whales left. His newscasts won a long list of awards including Emmys and Edward R. Murrow Awards and individually Alan has won numerous awards for everything from spot news to feature stories.
Alan holds a degree from Boston's Emerson College where he studied broadcast journalism. He also studied at Harvard University Extension and the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Amherst.
Alan is glad to be back in Colorado with his wife and four children. His love of journalism is surpassed only by his love of fatherhood. He reads extensively, plays blues harmonica and hockey and runs regularly. Each year he tries to summit more of Colorado's 14ers.