Michelle Bonner is an American journalist and businesswoman.
Career
A native of
Marblehead, Massachusetts, Bonner graduated from
Northeastern University
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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
Manchester, New Hampshire
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, and
Bangor, Maine
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Modern Bangor ...
. 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 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
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, the first black starting quarterback in the
NFL
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