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".[3] Bonner won the Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Journalism in 2001[3] 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.[4][5] 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.[6]