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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A lawsuit backed up by internal affairs investigations detail a pattern of harassment and retaliation in the Sheriff Department's Poway station.
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After Measure H passed, city officials and child care advocates are working on what happens next.
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For the first time in more than a decade, voters in San Diego County will have a new sheriff.
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San Diego County went from reliably Republican to a place where Democrats and no-party-preference voters dominate.
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The measure would allow the city to lease park and rec property to child care centers, which supporters say would help alleviate the city’s child care crisis.
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KPBS wants to talk to voters who have changed their political party since 2004, or left a party and become a no party preference voter.
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While de-escalation is now a buzzword in law enforcement circles in the wake of the George Floyd killing by Minneapolis police, it's been central to the Berkeley Police Department's mission for years.
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The San Diego Police Department is now requiring that officers learn de-escalation tactics. But experts and advocates say the overall training regimen still fosters an us vs them mentality.
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KPBS Midday EditionEmergency room visits are up 35% in San Diego County and 49% statewide since voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, data show. But doctors say many patients are simply inexperienced pot users who aren't in significant danger.
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