Amita Sharma
Investigative ReporterAmita Sharma has worked at KPBS since 2000 and has covered a wide range of stories for TV and radio. She is part of the KPBS Investigative Reporting unit and occasionally hosts KPBS Evening Edition. She has covered the devastating toll of Covid-19 on San Diego nursing homes as well as some of the pre-existing conditions within facilities that contributed to the crisis. In 2018 and 2019, Sharma was assigned to public broadcasting’s California Dream Project and reported on California’s inequality crisis exemplified by stagnant wages, housing affordability, a dwindling middle class, senior poverty, and dropping birth rates. She also moderated a statewide town hall meeting on the economic challenges of aging in California.
Before working on the California Dream Project, Sharma’s investigative reporting helped uncover corruption, including questionable activities by private businesses, state regulators, and elected leaders.
Sharma previously served as a legal affairs reporter and anchor/host of KPBS news programs.
Amita Sharma earned dual bachelor’s degrees in journalism and international relations from the University of Southern California.
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Alden Global Capital, The San Diego Union-Tribune’s new owner, quietly ceased publication of the UT En Español, ending a nearly 25-year run.
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Monumental Interventions, which takes a critical look at the military’s impact on the San Diego region and the world, will debut at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights Saturday.
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The library joins other big cities to skirt censorship by expanding availability of books deemed inappropriate in nearly two dozen states.
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Alden Global Capital, which bought the San Diego Union-Tribune in July, has a playbook for gutting newspapers and other businesses, say journalists and industry analysts.
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In other places where Alden owns newspapers, coverage of government institutions has suffered.
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Superior Court Judge Michael Washington, a former deputy public defender, said the county’s decision to not accept his application was absurd.
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The legal dispute over police drone footage stems from a lawsuit filed by Arturo Castanares, publisher of La Prensa San Diego.
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