Michelle Bonner is an American journalist and businesswoman.

Career

A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, Bonner graduated from

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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

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, and

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. She then was a sports anchor/reporter at KRIV in

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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”. Bonner won the Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Journalism in 2001 for a feature story on

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, the first black starting quarterback in the

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. That same year, she received the

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Award and Golden Mike for “Best Sportscast”.

National networks

Bonner was a sports anchor at Fox Sports in

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from 2002 to 2003. She then moved to CNN in

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, Georgia, where she was a sports anchor from 2003 to 2005. In March 2005, she joined

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as an

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anchor and occasionally anchored ''

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'', 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 {{US-tv-bio-stub