Bonnie Lynn Bernstein (born August 16, 1970 born in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American sports journalist and executive. She has been named one of the most talented female sportscasters in history by the American Sportscasters Association.
Bernstein is the only female fill-in host for the award-winning syndicated radio and TV program, The Dan Patrick Show and appears as a guest commentator on several news networks, including NBC, MSNBC and FOX News Channel, to discuss prominent sports stories.
Bernstein is Vice President, Content and Brand Development, of Campus Insiders, as well as the on-air "face" of the network. She freelances for The Dan Patrick Show, ESPN, espnW and DirecTV and serves as a guest commentator on several news networks, including MSNBC, NBC and FOX News Channel.
She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in broadcast journalism from University of Maryland. She was a four-time Academic All-America in gymnastics, receiving the Thomas M. Fields award for excellence in academics and athletics.
Bernstein launching her career as the news and sports director at WXJN-FM radio in Lewes, Delaware. She shifted to television at WMDT-TV in Salisbury, Maryland as the ABC affiliates weekend news anchor, then became Reno, Nevada's first-ever female weekday sports anchor at NBC affiliate KRNV-TV.
Bernstein first joined ESPN in 1995 as its Chicago Bureau Chief, where she covered Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls' record-setting championship run (1996–98). Bernstein joined CBS Sports in 1998 as the lead sideline reporter for the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships and feature reporter for The NFL Today. Upon signing with CBS/Westwood One Radio in 2001, Bernstein often pulled "double duty" during the NFL season, covering a Sunday game for CBS and Monday Night Football for radio.
In January 2006, Bernstein left CBS to and rejoined ESPN in July as a field reporter for Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. She changing focus to studio hosting many of ESPN’s high-profile shows, including NFL Live, Jim Rome Is Burning, Outside the Lines, First Take and College Football Live.
In April, 2013, Bernstein was named vice president of Content and Brand Development for Campus Insiders.
