ABC News Adds Gio Benitez to Correspondent Ranks

Joins New York bureau from Miami CBS station

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/9/2012 4:33:54 PM

ABC News has hired Gio Benitez as a New York-based correspondent reporting for all platforms. He will start at the bureau in early 2013.

Benitez joins ABC from CBS owned station WFOR in Miami where he previously covered the 2012 presidential election, the Trayvon Martin case and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

In a memo to staff Friday announcing the hire, ABC News president Ben Sherwood called Benitez "versatile and hard-charging" with a "dynamic storytelling ability."