Class of
2003
Bio: Bernadette Flores joined the 29 Eyewitness News Team in October of 2007. Bernadette came to Bakersfield from El Centro, California where she spent nearly two years as a reporter for KSWT News 13. Before that, Bernadette worked as a News Assistant at KABC in Los Angeles.
She was born and raised in El Paso, Texas where she started her journalism career early by anchoring and producing her own cable access television show. It was also then Bernadette was selected to anchor for Channel One Network’s Student Produced Week. Bernadette knew she wanted to be a journalist since junior high when she got started with her school’s TV Production class. It was then she decided she had to attend the best journalism school in the county. She went on to receive a scholarship and graduate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Go Trojans!!
She’s been in here for nearly 10 years and is happy to call California her adopted home state. But she says she’ll always be a Texas girl at heart.
In her spare time Bernadette likes to sleep, eat, and complain about how she eats and sleeps too much and doesn’t exercise enough.
She looks forward to her time as an Eyewitness News Investigator. So if you have a news tip, email Bernadette at bflores@eyeoutforyou.com.
ATVN positions and duties: Reporter/Writer/Anchor
What is your advice to aspiring journalists?
Be prepared your first job will likely have fewer resources than you’ve ever had in college. It’s up to you to succeed anyway.
What are the top three skills college journalism students should be working on in order to be prepared for their first broadcasting job?
Time management, stress coping mechanisms, poverty management.
What is the most important thing a college journalist should know when he or she is trying to negotiate his or her first job?
There are thousands waiting in line behind you if you don’t want it.
What prepared you most for your current job?
My internships.
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