Gibson started his career at the NBC station in
Rochester, New York. After spending three years reporting there, he moved to
WTXF in Philadelphia as the morning anchor and reporter. He won two
Emmy Awards for "outstanding news reporting" and "sports feature". He returned to New York City to be a lead reporter for WNBC NewsChannel. At NBC, he reported on stories including the
2000 Concorde plane crash and
9/11. With his home just blocks from the
World Trade Center, he was one of the first reporters on the scene on 9/11. Gibson joined
CNN and
CNN Headline News in January 2002 as an entertainment anchor and occasional news anchor seen nationally. During his three years there, Gibson attended several red carpet events, including the
Academy Awards and the
Grammy Awards. Gibson has also spent time in the hosting world with HGTV's
I Want That! and as an evening news anchor for
KSWB-TV news in
San Diego, California. In June 2010, he joined
CBS News in Los Angeles as
West Coast correspondent for
CBS Newspath. Gibson also served as an entertainment correspondent for the network's affiliate service, covering stories including
Mel Gibson's 2011
no contest plea to misdemeanor battery charges. Gibson left Southern California to join
WJLA, the
ABC affiliate for
Washington, D.C. area, in October 2011. In December 2013, Gibson left WJLA-TV to join ABC News as a correspondent. He was also co-anchor for
World News Now and
America This Morning until moving to
NBC News in January 2019, where he became a weekend anchor on
MSNBC Live. On January 18, 2022, Gibson joined
CBS Miami as a morning news co-anchor alongside Marybel Rodriguez. On January 25, Gibson and Rodriguez began hosting CBS News Miami's streaming service. By October 2022, he was no longer listed as part of the CBS4 team on their website. In February 2024, Kendis Gibson was hired by
WPIX in New York as co-anchor of its 4pm and 5pm evening newscasts, alongside Arrianee LeBeau. In November 2024, Gibson revealed that he suffered from severe depression and attempted suicide due to racism and bullying he experienced while working at ABC News. Gibson wrote a memoir,
Five Trips: An Investigative Journey into Mental Health, Psychedelic Healing, and Saving a Life, about his use of
psychedelics to combat depression. ==References==