It’s that time of the year again for The Black Snob’s second-annual Ed Bradley Award for Journalistic Hotness.
For you kids out there, Ed Bradley was the coolest of the cool, flyest of the fly anchormen/reporters working on TV. He was best known for handling weekend anchor duties at CBS News and being one of the many famous faces of “60 Minutes.” He was also the voice of Jazz at the Lincoln Center on NPR and all-around, sexy-as-hell. He was “The Man,” and I have missed him as we all have missed since his untimely death from Leukemia in November 2006.
Ed was the ultimate globe-trotting, brilliant, hard-hitting, old-school journalist who delivered the news while always looking fly (even when getting his ass blown up in Vietnam). He was the kind of guy every reporter looked up to and a trailblazer for many black reporters/anchors on air today. A guy who got a stud in his ear when he was well-past “young’un” because the Ed could pull that shit off.
They broke the mold on Bradley, so I named my talent, brains and beauty contest for TV reporters and anchors after him.
Last year’s winner (who got there on sheer sexy and potential alone) was CNN Weekend anchor TJ Holmes, with anchor/reporters Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Matt Lauer and Tiki Barber rounding out the top five.
This year we’re going with two categories for male and female reporters/anchors of all types and I’m looking for nominations. Will TJ maintain his crown? Or is there someone hotter on the rise?
Only you can decide!
Here are the nominees for this year’s “Ed Bradley Awards” (after the jump):
BEST MALE (Pick 5)
Tiki Barber, NBC
Byron Pitts, CBS
TJ Holmes, CNN
Brian Williams, NBC
David Gregory, NBC
John King, CNN
Russ Mitchell, CBS
Don Lemon, CNN
Richard Engel, NBC
John Yang, NBC
Troy Roberts, CBS
Sanjay Gupta, CNN/CBS
Tony Harris, CNN
Bryant Gumbel, HBO
David Muir, ABC
Bill Whitaker, CBS
Kevin Corke, NBC
Michael Ware, CNN
Lester Holt, NBC
Bob Simon, CBS
Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Rick Sanchez, CNN
Anderson Cooper, CNN
Jason Carroll, CNN
Scott Pelley, CBS
Shepard Smith, FOX News
Rob Marciano, CNN
Ron Claiborne, ABC
Reynolds Wolf, CNN
Matt Lauer, NBC
Dan Lothian, CNN
Bill Hemmer, FOX News
Chris Lawrence, CNN
BEST FEMALE (Pick 5)
Atika Schubert, CNN
Alison Stewart, MSNBC
Robin Roberts, ABC
Fredericka Whitfield, CNN
Stephanie Elam, CNN
Natalie Morales, NBC
Hoda Kotb, NBC
Julie Chen, CBS
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
Ann Curry, NBC
Maria Bartiromo, CNBC
Thalia Assuras, CBS
Debbie Turner-Bell, CBS
Rehema Ellis, NBC
Kelly O’Donnell, NBC
Katie Couric, CBS
Lola Ogunnaike, CNN
Suzanne Malvueax, CNN
Norah O’Donnell, MSNBC
Mallika Kapur, CNN International
Lisa Ling, National Geographic
Alina Cho, CNN
Kyra Phillips, CNN
Tamron Hall, MSNBC
Kimberly Dozier, CBS
Laila Ali, CBS
Soledad O’Brien, CNN
Michelle Miller, CBS
Christiane Amanpour, CNN
Christina Brown, MSNBC
Elaine Quijano, CNN
Betty Nguyen, CNN
Lara Logan, CBS
Campbell Brown, CNN
Erica Hill, CNN/CBS
Vote your favorites below or email The Snob at blacksnob@gmail.com.
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