Bonnie Erbe
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Bonnie Erbé is an American journalist and television host based in the Washington, D.C. area who has covered national politics since 1975.
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[edit] Personal
Erbé was born in New York City, but moved to Washington D.C. after graduation from college to cover politics. She graduated from Barnard College in 1974, Columbia University with an M.S. in Journalism in 1975 and a J.D. Georgetown University Law Center in 1987.
[edit] Professional career
Bonnie Erbé is host and Executive-In-Charge of the PBS program, To the Contrary. This award-winning news analysis program airs nationally on 240 PBS stations each week. As host of the program, Ms. Erbé leads discussions with well-known women journalists and commentators on a variety of significant social issues including presidential and congressional politics, family and medical leave, women in the workplace, the environment, health care, Supreme Court decisions, etc. In 2008, a PBS documentary Ms. Erbé hosted and helped produce, called, "9 to 5 No Longer, the Work-life Revolution" won two major journalism awards: the Conference Board Media Award and the Council on Contemporary Families Broadcast Award. To the Contrary (TTC) was one of five finalists for a GLAAD anti-defamation award in 2007 and won two 2006 Clarion Awards from Women in Communications for Best TV Talk show. The program won the Gracie Award or top honors from American Women in Radio and Television in 2006, 2005, 1999 and 1997 The program won 2004, 2003, 2002, 1999 and 1994 EMMA awards from Radcliffe College and the National Women's Political Caucus for overall excellence. TTC also won the prestigious ICI Education Foundation award in 2000 for Personal Finance Reporting as well as the 2001 New York State Society of CPA’s award for a series we produced on women and pensions. Ms. Erbé won the 2004 NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) Outstanding Documentary award for coverage of efforts to de-stigmatize mental illness in minority communities.
Ms. Erbé is also a Scripps Howard Newspapers Washington columnist and a thrice-weekly news blogger for USNews.com. Her column won a 2006 EMMA award for outstanding editorial commentary. It is sent via Scripps Howard's wire service to almost 400 newspapers and has run in such major papers as the Sacramento Bee, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Detroit Free-Press, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Boston Herald. She has appeared as a news analyst on CNN, MSNBC, the Fox News Channel and BBC Television and on public radio’s Marketplace.
For nine years, from 1989 to 1998 Ms. Erbé was Legal Affairs Correspondent for the Mutual/NBC Radio Networks. Her reports on the Supreme Court, Justice Department and Congress were heard on the 1200 affiliates of the Mutual and NBC Radio Networks. She also served as news analyst on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on Mutual. A sixty-minute documentary she reported and produced for NBC Radio in 1990 won an Ohio State award, the American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) award for best documentary, as well as the National Press Club Award for best radio journalism.
Ms. Erbé graduated with honors from Georgetown University Law School in 1987. She is a member of the D.C. and New York bars and while at Georgetown she was on law review. She also has a master's in journalism from Columbia University (1975) and a B.A. in English from Barnard College (1974.)
Prior to joining Mutual/NBC Ms. Erbé covered Congress and national politics for the UPI Radio Network from 1983 to 1989. She has covered every national political convention since 1976. Ms. Erbé spent eight years in network and local TV news as a reporter and anchor. She was a general assignment correspondent in NBC-TV's Atlanta bureau. There she covered such stories as the 1981 air traffic controllers' strike (doing live reports for the Today Show and Nightly News), the trial of Elvis Presley's doctor, John Nichopolous and the Atlanta Child Murders case. She worked for NBC from 1981 to 1983. Prior to that, she worked for the CBS-TV affiliate in Washington, D.C., WDVM (now WUSA) for a year, and the CBS affiliate in Tampa, Florida for three years where she covered Florida politics. After graduating from Columbia Journalism School in 1975, she worked for two years in Washington, D.C. for the now-defunct Capitol Hill News Service as a correspondent covering Washington, D.C. politics for out of town TV stations. Mangosauce.com reported on her involvement in the campaign for restrictions on the influx of foreign brides resulting in the Internet Marriage Broker Regulation Act passed in 2005 without any previous debate. The website stated that her extreme views claiming an undesirable "educational" inferiority of the about 40000 foreign brides a year showed similarities to the Nazi Nuremberg Race Laws banning "Aryan"-Jewish marriages and that only political correctness hindered her obviously from even more radical statements. Additionally she accused all husbands in such relationships of being abusers.
