Oral History Interview with Bernice Kearney, March 8, 2019 Page: 1 of 14
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The Oral History of Bernice Kearney, News Director, KSAT 12 News
Journalist and Mayborn graduate student, Rebecca Aguilar conducted the oral history of Bernice
Kearney, the news director at KSAT 12 News in San Antonio, Texas. The interview was con-
ducted March 8, 2019, at the television station. Full transparency, Kearney was Aguilar's intern
while she was a reporter at KENS-TV in the late 1980s.
AGUILAR: If you could talk to Bernice who graduated from St. Mary's University, with what
you know today; What would you say to her? What's that piece of advice you would give her?
KEARNEY: I would say don't underestimate yourself. Don't under estimate how much you are
going to learn. The end of college was not the end of learning. I think I always sort of knew that.
I would have definitely would have told her there is more to life than work and don't forget that.
Make sure you take care of yourself not just work.
Now 30 years later, I realize I'm not going to be any good to people at work, if I'm not good to
me at home. If I don't have certain me time. You know my husband and I like to do stuff. We
like to travel.
Being the boss isn't all that. Being a leader is much more important and so it doesn't really mat-
ter what you are. What your job is or what your title is. I have never been high on titles anyway.
This wasn't that important to me.
AGUILAR: You grew up in Dallas. Then you moved to Phoenix.
KEARNEY: Then I moved back to Dallas.
AGUILAR: A single mother raised you?
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Aguilar, Rebecca & Kearney, Bernice. Oral History Interview with Bernice Kearney, March 8, 2019, text, March 8, 2019; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1200192/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism.