Michelle Bonner

ESPNEWS and  SportsCenter Anchor

Michelle Bonner

Michelle Bonner joined ESPN in March 2005 as an anchor on ESPNEWS and SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship sports news program.  Bonner came to ESPN from CNN where she was a sports anchor for two years. 

Prior to CNN, Bonner was a sports anchor at Fox Sports in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2003, the lead sports anchor at Los Angeles’ KCOP-TV from 1999 to 2002, and a sports anchor/reporter at KRIV-TV in Houston from 1997 to 1999.  

Bonner was graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in English (1994).  She began her broadcasting career at WCHS-TV as a news producer and fill-in sports anchor/reporter in Charleston, W.Va., and also worked in Manchester, N.H., and Bangor, Maine. 

A native of Marblehead, Mass., 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.”  In 2000, she earned an Emmy award for “Best Newscast.” 

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