Bonnie Schneider

Bonnie Schneider (b.1969) is a CNN meteorologist. She debuted on the network on June 11, 2005, just in time to cover the 2005 Hurricane Season.

Schneider has also been the Weekend Meteorologist/Special Assignment Reporter for "The Ten O'Clock News" on WLVI-TV WB56 in Boston. While in Boston, she also provided entertainment and lifestyle reporting as a special assignment reporter three days a week. Prior to WB56, she was the weekend meteorologist at WFOR-TV in Miami. She has held several meteorology and reporting positions including: News 12 Long Island, a 24-hour cable news network in the New York City area and WXII-TV, the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She also worked for the CBS network in New York City as a frequent fill-in meteorologist on the "The Saturday Early Show".

Schneider was recently awarded the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval for broadcast meteorologists who achieve the highest standard of excellence in both technical weather knowledge and communication skills. She has also had the opportunity to interview a number of famous celebrities. While in New York at News 12, she earned the Associated Press Award for "Best Interview" for her half-hour special, "A Conversation with Billy Joel." She said she suffered from nerves just prior to the interview, but her uneasiness subsided after the legendary singer flashed her a smile and admitted that he watched her station's newscasts frequently and always kept an eye out for her "marine forecasts."

A native of Jericho, New York, Schneider earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University in 1991. She pursued her meteorological studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Hunter College in Manhattan. She started her career as a weekend meteorologist at KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, Louisiana in the early 1990's.

External links

* [http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2004130 Bonnie Schneider at KPLC-TV]
* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/11/smn.03.html Transcript of Bonnie Schneider debut on CNN]