Michelle Bonner
{{short description|American journalist and businesswoman (born 1972)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Michelle Bonner is an American journalist and businesswoman.
Career
A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, 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,{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13885230.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308224550/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13885230.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2016|title=Media Converging On Charleston For Power Home Debut|last=Weekley|first=Dave|date=12 April 2005|newspaper=The Charleston Gazette|access-date=16 May 2013}} 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".{{cite web|url=http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/news/page47.html|title=Putting The Leader In Worldwide Leader of Sports|access-date=16 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824233807/http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/news/page47.html|archive-date=24 August 2011}} 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 Award and Golden Mike for "Best Sportscast".
= National networks =
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.{{cite news|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/330100-2010-spotlight-the-20-hottest-women-to-watch-on-sports-tv|title=The 20 Hottest Women To Watch On Sports TV|last=Murphy|first=Kevin|date=21 January 2010|newspaper=The Bleacher Report|access-date=16 May 2013}}{{cite news | last =Bickelhaupt | first =Susan | title =Kremer Knew Her Field Early | newspaper =Boston.com| date =3 November 2006 | url = http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2006/11/03/kremer_knew_her_field_early/ | access-date =16 May 2013 }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://bonnerconsultinggroup.com/|title=Connecticut Based PR & Media Relations Firm|website=BONNER CONSULTING GROUP|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-12}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20120301111352/http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/10/bonner_michelle/ Michelle Bonner ESPN Bio]
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Category:American television sports anchors
Category:People from Marblehead, Massachusetts
Category:American women sports commentators
Category:Northeastern University alumni
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