Yaw Bonsu is a senior journalism major at Hofstra University. He is a Fox Sports Original Programming intern, working alongside FS1's 'First Things First' team. Yaw is also a sports update anchor for the New York Islanders Radio Network, providing intermission reports on ESPN 98.7, ESPN 1050, SiriusXM, the NHL Gamecenter App, and WRHU-FM New York, among other radio rights holders.
Yaw is the former Sports Director of four-time Marconi award-winning radio station WRHU-FM New York.
He is formerly an intern for WABC-TV's Sports Department (February 2023-January 2024), helping log games and coordinating highlights for producers Joe Rupolo and Alex Wilcox and sports anchors Ryan Field and Sam Ryan, while also helping out on-site for various games, events, and stories. Concurrently, Yaw was an intern for Fox News Channel in fall 2023, working with the 'Cavuto Live' team as a part of the Fox News Media College Associate Program.
Yaw was a weekend news anchor for 77 WABC Radio in New York City where he produced, wrote, and anchored top-of-the-hour news updates on news primarily in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Yaw worked under news director Noam Laden to produce, voice, and write radio wraps for air.
He was also the team reporter for the Mount Vernon Power, a team in the Maximum Basketball League, from August 2022 through September 2023. He hosted, reported, and created content throughout the Power Basketball season on digital and social channels.
Yaw has also interned with NBC 4 New York (Better Get Baquero), Fox News Channel ('The Ingraham Angle), SiriusXM (Fight Nation Channel 156), Varsity Media, and at Bruce Beck's Sportscasting Camp as a counselor/mentor for younger aspiring broadcasters.
In October 2022, Yaw reported for ABC 7 New York's Hurricane Sandy Town Hall, detailing the aftermath of the superstorm 10 years later. Yaw was the only student to report for the broadcast and did so through WABC-TV's partnership with Hofstra University.
In that same month, Yaw was named the NBA on TNT 'Oscar Pope Lift Every Voice' Fellow. Through this fellowship, Yaw reported for the network's NBA pregame show, 'Inside The NBA,' by interviewing Los Angeles Lakers forward Juan Toscano-Anderson. Yaw was also able to shadow and assist the Turner Sports' production and social media teams on-site in San Francisco for NBA opening night.
Yaw returned to Turner Sports in February 2023 as a sideline reporter for the network's coverage of Michael B. Jordan's Invesco QQQ Legacy Classic, covering two HBCU basketball games at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.
Yaw Is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, taking part in the organization's student multimedia project in the summer of 2021 and 2022. 2021 was virtual, but in 2022, Yaw took part in the project and was a reporter in the convention's host city of Las Vegas under the mentorship and leadership of current industry leaders.