Michelle Bonner
Michelle Bonner | |
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| Born | June 6, 1972 (age 54) |
| Education | Northeastern University[1] |
| Occupation | News Anchor |
Michelle Bonner is an American journalist and businesswoman.
Career
[edit | edit source]A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, Bonner graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1994.[1] She began her broadcasting career at WCHS-TV as a news producer and fill-in sports anchor/reporter in Charleston, West Virginia,[2] and also worked in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Bangor, Maine. She then was a sports anchor/reporter at KRIV in Houston from 1997 to 1999.
Bonner was the main sports anchor at Los Angeles' KCOP-TV from 1999 to 2002. In 2000, she earned an Emmy award for "Best Newscast".[3] Bonner won the Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Journalism in 2001[3] for a feature story on Marlin Briscoe, the first black starting quarterback in the NFL. That same year, she received the Associated Press Award and Golden Mike for "Best Sportscast".
National networks
[edit | edit source]Bonner was a sports anchor at Fox Sports in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2003. She then moved to CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a sports anchor from 2003 to 2005. In March 2005, she joined ESPN as an ESPNews anchor and occasionally anchored SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship sports news program.[4][5] On May 14, 2012, it was announced that Bonner and ESPN had decided to part ways after seven years.
Post-ESPN
[edit | edit source]Bonner now runs her own public relations consulting group.[6]
References
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