Bonnie Ginzburg Erbé (born April 2, 1954) is an American

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and television host based in

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Biography

Bonnie Ginzburg Erbé graduated from the New Lincoln School and attended

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

, where she received her bachelor's degree. She later received her MSJ from

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School of Journalism, and her J.D. from

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''cum laude''. She began her journalist career in 1975, as a correspondent for

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, serving to 1989. In 1989, Erbé left United Press International to become a mutual correspondent for NBC/Mutual Radio and served from 1989 to 1998. In 1992, Erbé became the moderator for the half-hour weekly news analysis program, '' To the Contrary'', which deals primarily (but not exclusively) with women's issues. The program has won multiple Gracie and Clarion awards, and many others. In 1996, Erbé took the show to the newly formed Persephone Productions. She was a contributing editor at USNews.com, the website of U.S. News & World Report, where she wrote for the Thomas Jefferson Street blog,"Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog" at ''U.S. News & World Report''
/ref> and also wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 20 years for the Scripps Howard News Service which won multiple journalism awards.

References

External links

Erbé's PBS program
Erbé's blog at USNews.com
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