Ed Gordon (journalist)
| Ed Gordon | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Edward Lansing Gordon III August 17, 1960 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Western Michigan University (BA, communications and political science, 1982) |
| Occupation | Television journalist, talk show host |
| Years active | 1986 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Karen Haney (Divorced) Leslie Howard (current) |
| Children | Taylor Gordon (b. 1994) |
| Website | http://www.bet.com/news/edgordon |
Edward Lansing "Ed" Gordon III (born August 17, 1960) is an American journalist and host of the BET program Weekly with Ed Gordon. He hosted BET Tonight with Ed Gordon from 2001-2002. He is the son of athlete Edward Lansing Gordon, Jr. Having worked at the local level in Detroit and nationally at CBS News and NBC News, Gordon is the former host of BET News and the syndicated talk show Our World with Black Enterprise.
Gordon's parents were both schoolteachers, and Gordon's father Edward Lansing Gordon, Jr. won a gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics for competing in the long jump. In 1971, when Ed Gordon was 11, his father died. Gordon graduated from Western Michigan University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and political science. Although Gordon considered law school, Gordon aspired to be a television journalist and took an unpaid internship at WTVS, the PBS affiliate in Detroit. At WTVS, he worked as a production assistant from 1983 to 1985.
In 1986, Gordon became host of a local weekly talk show, Detroit Black Journal, which had a yearly salary of $11,000. On the side, Gordon worked as a freelance journalist at the then-fledgling cable network Black Entertainment Television and in 1988 became anchor of the weekly program BET News, which covered African-American social issues and popular culture. While Gordon worked at BET, its news staff had only around 20 people, and Gordon produced most of his interviews with only one or two assistants.
Following the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Gordon hosted a BET special, Black Men Speak Out: The Aftermath and interviewed President George H. W. Bush about the riots. Gordon also hosted hour-long interviews on several occasions in the series Conversations with Ed Gordon. His subjects have included President Bill Clinton, actor/director, rapper Tupac Shakur, Sidney Poitier, and singer Whitney Houston.
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