Bonnie Erbé is an American journalist and television host based in the Washington, D.C. area who has covered national politics since 1975. She attended Barnard College where she received her bachelors degree. She later received her MSJ from Columbia University School of Journalism and her J.D. from Georgetown University cum laude.
Erbé created and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé. She is a contributing editor at USNews.com, the website of U.S. News & World Report, where she writes for the Thomas Jefferson Street blog and also writes a syndicated newspaper column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
Bonnie Erbé won the 2008 Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council Media Award for coverage of work-life issues. She also won the 2008 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues.
She has won more than 15 (total) Clarion Awards from Women in Communications, Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio & TV and EMMA awards from the National Women's Political Caucus and formerly from Radcliffe College. She also won Ohio State and New York Festival Awards while working for NBC Radio.[1]