Gionet has been in news for more than thirty years. He started in the small market of
Tupelo, Mississippi; he also anchored and reported in at
WOOD-TV in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked as an investigative reporter in
Providence, Rhode Island prior to his first stint at CBS 4. He worked at
KCNC CBS 4 from the early 1990s until leaving for
Jacksonville in April 1998. Prior to joining CBS 4 for a second stint in 2006, Gionet was the main anchor and nightside managing editor at
WTLV/
WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida. While in Jacksonville, he logged many hours during hurricanes and the
2000 election controversy, when he revealed more than 20,000 over and under votes in
Duval County. One of his most memorable stories was his reporting on the endangered
North Atlantic right whales, bringing national focus to an unpopular species which has only an estimated 300 whales left. Gionet studied broadcast journalism at
Emerson College in
Boston, Massachusetts. He also studied at
Harvard Extension School and the
University of Massachusetts Boston and
Amherst. ==References==