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Vince Gerasole
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Vince Gerasole serves as a
general assignment reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. Gerasole
joined the station in April 2001, and since that time he has anchored and
reported for various station newscasts. Currently,
he can be found covering the features beat and as host of CBS 2's popular
dining segment, TABLE FOR 2.
Gerasole
has been honored for excellence in broadcast journalism throughout his
career. He was named the Best Broadcast Reporter in the state by the Associated
Press of Illinois in 2002 and Best Newswriter in 2006 and 2007.
He's received 11 Emmy Awards for his work at
CBS 2, including three for outstanding individual reporting (2003, 2004, 2005),
two for outstanding writing (2006 and 2007) and one for "Illinois Getaway Guide
(2007)", a half-hour special he wrote and hosted.
Gerasole was honored by the Associated Press
of Pennsylvania for Best Spot News Coverage.
He received the Leonardo DaVinci Award for "Excellence in Communications,"
from the Illinois chapter of the Sons of Italy,
and "The David Award," from Illinois'
Italo-American National Union.
Both
awards
honored his commitment to the community.
Gerasole is also the 2006 recipient of the Dante
Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans. He is a three-time James Beard Award nominee
for Excellence in Broadcast Food Reporting.Before
working at CBS 2, Gerasole was a general assignment reporter at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Ga.
Prior to that, Gerasole worked as an anchor and reporter at KHNL-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He also served as a Capitol Hill and White House correspondent in Washington, D.C., for Cox
Broadcasting, and worked as an anchor and reporter at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and KCRL-TV in Reno, Nev. Gerasole, who is fluent in
Italian, began his broadcasting career as a New York based field producer for the
Italian Network RAI.
Vince
graduated from Northwestern
University with a B.A. in
Political Science and Italian, and attended the University's Medill School of
Journalism. He is a native of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Gerasole,
his wife and two daughters make their home in Evanston.
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