Transforming Ideas into Powerful Visual Stories

Teneille A. Gibson is a 7x Emmy® Award-winning video journalist, producer, and editor. Teneille's passion is documenting everyday experiences and people through compelling visual storytelling. Her style is best described as cinematic and run-and- gun, an artistic and freewheeling approach that ensures her stories are not just seen, but felt.

Teneille is currently a content producer at NBC4 Washington. In 2011, Teneille pitched to news management for the station to start airing a Black History Month television special. Since then, Teneille has produced, shot, and edited the station's Black History Month special every year. Teneille won an Emmy® in the religion category for the Black history month special "Keeping the Faith." She also won an Emmy® as editor of the Black history month special "April Uprising." Teneille also co-created the public affairs show "District Matters,” an Emmy-nominated program focused on education reform.

Teneille’s distinct insight into the Black experience has come to life in numerous videos that she has shot, edited, and narrated as a one-woman team. Her video on historical Black beaches in Maryland won a Chesapeake Associated Press Award in the Digital Feature Project category. She contributed work to NBC4’s social media strategy for the historical opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, producing a feature video on the museum's proclaimed Sweet Home Café restaurant. The project won a regional Edward R. Murrow award in the excellence for social media category. A compilation of Teneille's visual stories also won an Emmy® in the visual journalist category.

Teneille writes and edits daily news stories for the afternoon and evening newscasts. She is often responsible for editing the “cold open,” the first minute of the newscasts. The cold open is essential because it sets the tone of the newscast and captures the viewer's attention. Teneille has won 3 Emmy® awards in the news editor (within 24 hours) category based on the effective draw of her cold-open edits.

Teneille is a native Chicagoan, born and raised on the South Side. She has a MSJ in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a BA in Mass Media Arts from Clark Atlanta University. Teneille currently lives in Washington D.C., but her upbringing as a Chicago South-Sider is a steady source on inspiration as she captures the everyday experiences and people that make life as a whole, and Black life in particular, beautifully nuanced and worthy of a lens.