Gina Gaston

Gina Gaston (born January 14, 1966 in Oxnard, CA) is a television journalist and currently the lead anchor for KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas.[1]

Career

She joined channel 13 in 1992 to anchor the morning newscast with Tom Koch. She then left in 1999 to co-anchor HomePage, an afternoon show on MSNBC, with Ashleigh Banfield and Mika Brzezinski.[2] Entertainment Weekly described the trio as "the Powerpuff Girls of journalism".[2] Gaston left MSNBC in 2000. In 2001, she returned to channel 13 to anchor and report the 6 and 10pm newscast, replacing long-time anchor Shara Fryer.

Awards and honors

Gaston won a 2007 Lone Star Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for a documentary. She won a 2007 National Headliner Award as well for a documentary titled Soulful Stitches. She has also won several Associated Press awards. Gaston is a 1987 graduate of the University of Southern California.

Personal life

Gaston is married to former Houston Rockets player Mario Elie. In 2003, Gina gave birth to triplets—two boys and one girl.

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gollark: I consider light a physical thing though. You can measure it, it directly impacts physical objects, sort of thing.
gollark: To the extent that things like countries do without physically existing, sure.
gollark: They're *caused by* things in reality, as far as I know they don't actually... have some sort of physical existence outside of being stored/processed in people's brains and computers/paper/other storage.
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References
  1. "Gina Gaston bio". abclocal. Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
  2. Tucker, Ken (February 16, 2001). "The Spin Room, Hardball". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 6, 2013.


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