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Bonnie Bernstein

b. August 16, 1970

by JWA Staff
Our work to expand the Encyclopedia is ongoing. We are providing this brief biography for Bonnie Bernstein until we are able to commission a full entry.

Athlete, journalist, television producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Bonnie Bernstein.

Image courtesy of Shawn Robbins via Wikimedia Commons.

One of the most accomplished female sportscasters in history, Bonnie Bernstein combines her role as on-air journalist with her work behind the scenes as CEO of Walk Swiftly Productions. Bernstein was a four-time All-American in gymnastics at the University of Maryland. After graduation, she immediately went into sports journalism as the news and sports director for WXJN radio in Delaware. After slowly moving up the ladder in TV news, including a stint as the first female weekday sports anchor in Reno, Nevada, Bernstein became ESPN’s Chicago bureau chief in 1995, covering Michael Jordan’s record-breaking success with the Chicago Bulls. She became lead sideline reporter for CBS Sports in 1998 and signed with Westwood One Radio in 2001, regularly pulling double duty and becoming the first correspondent ever to cover the Super Bowl for both network television and network radio in 2004. In 2006 she returned to ESPN, and in 2009 she was named co-host and SportsCenter anchor for the Michael Kay Show on ESPN radio. She was both an anchor and vice president of content and brand development for Campus Insiders.  As of 2024, she is national spokesperson for the Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis. In January 2017, Bernstein founded Walk Swiftly Productions and is serving as WSP’s CEO. In 2019, she was the executive producer for GOOD GAME: UC Irvine, an ESPN docuseries, which received the Tempest Award for Best Esports Themed Program.  

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Bonnie Bernstein." (Viewed on December 24, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernstein-bonnie>.