Claire Trageser
Deputy Investigations Team and Digital Fellowship EditorAs deputy editor, Claire leads KPBS' efforts to train and support the station's award-winning journalists in developing digital-first content like podcasts, YouTube videos and data visualizations. She works collaboratively with the news team to produce and enhance investigative and enterprising stories.
Her journalistic highlights include producing the six-part in depth radio, TV, and podcast series Dr J's, and creating a searchable database of police shootings and use of force cases as part of her reporting on policing. Claire has also contributed to KPBS's coronavirus coverage, including exclusively obtaining the data on where COVID-19 outbreaks are happening. She also has analyzed demographics surrounding deaths, infection rates, and the growing childcare crisis.
In 2020, Claire was named the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists' Journalist of the Year and has won that organization's Diversity Prize two years in a row for coverage of emerging leaders in San Diego's lower income communities and the tension between two neighborhoods that share a common boundary. Claire studied chemistry at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She then earned a master's degree in journalism at UC Berkeley, where she worked at the Knight Digital Media Center and completed a master's project with Michael Pollan.
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KPBS wants to hear from you about what San Diego County public artworks you notice or are most curious about. -
KPBS would like to talk to people who live in multigenerational households. If this is you, please let us know. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe video of this 2019 incident was made public because of the work of the First Amendment Coalition. -
School Board Trustee Shana Hazan sat down with KPBS to talk about transitional kindergarten. -
Last year, in the midst of a long-running lawsuit, the city’s housing commission raised its voucher amounts significantly. -
Countywide, the number of home births rose by 28% from before the pandemic to the end of 2022.
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Now 75 years old, Jane Dorotik is truly free after two decades in prison. She always maintained she was innocent. -
Republic Services and Teamsters Local 542 sat at the bargaining table on Christmas Eve, but they failed to reach an agreement. -
KPBS Midday EditionSince the start of the pandemic, the number of people moving to California from other states has dropped by 38%, according to a new study.
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