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Kimberly Hunt

By Judith A. Habert
Making A Difference Photos : Lisa K. Miller

she watched her Dad work; so much so that she briefly
We often look at objects of beauty and simply admire them wanted to be an investigator. and then thought about want-
for what we see, without delving any deeper into what lies ing to get married and have a family so she decided being a
beneath. If we do take the time to examine them further, we reporter would probably be the best choice for her.
often find that what lies beneath is as beautiful. I can hon- Once the seed was planted Kimberly ran with the idea,
estly say that this is indeed the case with Channel 10 News researching colleges until she happened upon the perfect
anchor Kimberly Hunt. program. Kimberly
I was lucky enough to decided to attend
have spent some time San Francisco State
with her recently to get to University where
know one of the women she would major in
behind the face of our broadcast journal-
daily evening newscasts. ism. She had heard
We met in the unassum- wonderful things
ing cafeteria of Channel about their pro-
10 studios in San Diego to gram and was not
chat about life, love and disappointed in her
career as a member of choice. There was a
the longest running television station on
Female News Anchor campus which broad-
team in the country. cast news five days
Kimberly Hunt and Carol a week, Kimberly
Lebeau have been the quickly found her
12 standard in news in San niche and settled in
Diego for the past two to learn all she could
decades. What happens about the field she
outside the studio when loved. As Kimberly
the cameras are off? Is stated, “One of the
life as glamorous as it things I loved most
appears? Of course there about the program
are guest appearances, was that our advisor
meetings with celebrities was straight out of
and hob knobbing with the NBC affiliate in
the San Diego elite, but San Francisco and
at the base of it all is a he ran the newsroom
woman who believes that on campus as he did
her celebrity should be in real life. So we all
used to give back, not learned every aspect
only to our community but of the profession.
to charities around the Our jobs changed
world. frequently allowing all
Kimberly grew up in the of us to get experi-
Napa Valley and at the ence as reporters,
age of 15 had already directors, producers,
mapped out her future camera operators,
career goals. She knew editors and on air
from this young age that news personalities.
she wanted to become a By the time I graduat-
news reporter. The initial ed I had done it all.”
interest came from her
father, even though he wasn’t in the news field. Kimberly’s Kimberly didn’t wait to graduate to get her feet wet in the
Dad was an officer for the California Highway Patrol. When industry. It was only her second year in college when she
Dad came home at night his briefcase would be full of reports earned an internship at the San Francisco CNN bureau as an
of events that happened each day. It fascinated her when assignment editor. Along with classes,
Issue 1, 2009