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Brandon Truffa

Media Production Specialist

Prior to joining the KPBS Midday team in 2024, Brandon worked as a board operator and producer with The Mighty 1090 in San Diego, and executive producer and sound editor at FOX Sports Radio in Los Angeles. He's a San Diego native and graduate of San Diego State University. In his spare time he enjoys watching sports, going to comedy shows and hanging out with his cats and dogs.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS
  • El gobernador Gavin Newsom dice que pedirá a los votantes que decidan sobre nuevos distritos en noviembre, mientras California busca desafiar a los estados controlados por el Partido Republicano que están rediseñando los mapas para favorecer a los republicanos en las elecciones intermedias.
  • Many California cities require homebuilders to create affordable housing or pay fees to support construction of those units. A new lawsuit contends those fees are unconstitutional.
  • Victory in the Pacific examines the final year of World War II in the Pacific theater, including the rationale for using the atomic bomb, and features the first-hand recollections of both American and Japanese civilians and soldiers -- even a kamikaze pilot who survived his failed mission. "In the annals of warfare, the final year of the war in the Pacific stands alone," says director Austin Hoyt. "It would be as brutal as war gets." Victory in the Pacific traces that fateful year, from the American capture of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific in July 1944 to the surrender broadcast of Emperor Hirohito in August 1945.
  • Dozens of Texas Democrats left the state to protest a redistricting map, facing potentially steep consequences. Lawmaker walkouts have had mixed success in the past — so what is there to gain?
  • California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed suit seeking to overturn an executive order targeting gender-affirming care for people under 19.
  • Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Monday, Aug. 4, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. Amid a growing U.S. maternal health crisis, especially for women of color, the film offers glimmers of hope: women finding their voice and autonomy; nurses listening to women; and hospitals treating the community holistically. It paints a joyous portrait of babies coming into the world, and of heroic efforts to catch new mothers before they fall through the broken health safety net.