Gio Benitez is the recipient of the 2026 Randy Shilts Award for LGBTQ+ Coverage.
Benitez is co-anchor of “Good Morning America” on Saturday and Sunday and transportation correspondent for ABC News, based in New York. He covers aviation, space, railroads and the auto industry across all ABC News programs and platforms. He has covered a wide range of stories for the network, including the Pulse nightclub shooting, El Chapo’s underground escape from a Mexican prison and the Boston Marathon bombing. He has a long history of breaking exclusive investigative stories as part of the series, “GMA Investigates.” Before joining ABC News in 2013, he was a reporter for WFOR-TV in Miami, where he covered the 2012 presidential election and the Trayvon Martin case.