Michelle Bonner is an American journalist and businesswoman.
Career
A native of
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, along the North Shore. Its population was 20,441 at the 2020 census. The town lies on a small peninsula that extends into the northern part of Massachusetts Bay. Attache ...
, Bonner graduated from
Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1994.
She began her broadcasting career at
WCHS-TV as a news producer and fill-in sports anchor/reporter in
Charleston, West Virginia, and also worked in
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Ha ...
, and
Bangor, Maine. She then was a sports anchor/reporter at
KRIV in
Houston
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from 1997 to 1999.
Bonner was the main sports anchor at Los Angeles’
KCOP-TV
KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both station ...
from 1999 to 2002. In 2000, she earned an Emmy award for “Best Newscast”.
Bonner won the
Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Journalism in 2001
for a feature story on
Marlin Briscoe, the first black starting quarterback in the
NFL. That same year, she received the
Associated Press
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Award and Golden Mike for “Best Sportscast”.
National networks
Bonner was a sports anchor at Fox Sports in
Los Angeles
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from 2002 to 2003. She then moved to
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
in
Atlanta
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, Georgia, where she was a sports anchor from 2003 to 2005. In March 2005, she joined
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...
as an
ESPNews
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anchor and occasionally anchored ''
SportsCenter'', ESPN's flagship sports news program.
On May 14, 2012, it was announced that Bonner and ESPN had decided to part ways after seven years.
Post-ESPN
Bonner now runs her own public relations consulting group.
References
External links
Michelle Bonner ESPN Bio
Living people
American television sports anchors
People from Marblehead, Massachusetts
Women sports announcers
Northeastern University alumni
1972 births
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