Please join EMF for a seminar by Frank Bond of the Freedom Forum. Mr. Bond will be speaking about his nearly 30 year career in the TV/Media business. The event will be held in VB 204 on March 31st at 7pm. Please find a bio with more information on Frank Bond below. For more information contact: Jennnifer Lackey, “jlackey@towson.edu”
Frank Bond BIO
Frank Bond comes to the Freedom Forum from WUSA-TV where he has worked as a general assignment reporter since 1990. Frank began is television career joining WBAL-TV in 1977, the same year he received a BA in Social and Behavioral Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University. He started out as a news photographer, shooting and editing 16mm film. Frank learned these skills on the job and was eventually assigned to cover sweeps series as well as general news of the day.
In 1980, WBAL phased out film and expanded its nightly newscast from a half-hour to one hour. Rather than move from film to videotape, Frank made the transition from behind the camera to reporting. Although he was primarily a general assignment reporter, Frank eventually covered a weekly franchise covering education. “Making the Grade” won a national award of recognition, as well as the Maryland State Teachers Association “School Bell Award” for excellence three consecutive years.
In 1986, Frank was recruited by Jack Hurley to join Gannett News Service-TV. As a reporter for the bureau covering news for ten Gannett-owned stations, Frank covered the trial of Jim Baker, the execution of serial killer Ted Bundy, the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the 1988 Republican National Convention, the San Francisco earthquake, three Super Bowls, numerous NASA Shuttle launches, as well as providing ongoing team coverage of Congress with special emphasis on the delegations from the ten television markets the Bureau served. Frank was a member of the inaugural Paul Miller Fellowship Program for Washington-based journalists, which is now carried on by The Freedom Forum.
In 1990, GNS-TV was phased out and Frank joined WUSA, one of the ten television news operations he had served at the bureau. In 1996, WUSA named Frank co-anchor of its new weekend morning newscast which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Since joining the Freedom Forum, Frank has co-produced a number of video projects, he has moderated panel discussions on First Amendment issues, and has interviewed journalists before live audiences in Newseum-sponsored events throughout the D.C. Metropolitan area.
Frank lives in Baltimore. He is father of three children, Lauren, Molly and Daniel.
