Correspondent and Producer, VICE on HBO and VICE News Tonight on HBO
Gianna Toboni
Gianna Toboni is a producer and is a correspondent working across both “VICE News Tonight,” the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast on HBO, and the multi award-winning “VICE” on HBO documentary series. Before joining VICE Media in 2013, she worked as a correspondent at Al Jazeera and as a producer for ABC News.
Toboni is a 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and spoke at TEDx in 2014. She won a Webby Award in 2014 for Best Documentary Series for “The Real,” as well as a GLAAD Media Award for “Church and States” in 2017.
Toboni’s reporting spans a range of topics including the Syrian Refugee crisis, the European fighters flocking to join ISIS, the effects of gerrymandering on American democracy, life inside Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and sexual assault on college campuses.
Recently, Toboni was recognized by the Newswomen’s Club of New York at the Front Page Awards for her reporting on transgender youth. In one of today’s most polarizing debates, she brought awareness to an unseen struggle as families made critical and life-altering decisions, stirring the national conversation about youth and gender at a pivotal time.