John Carroll
General Assignment Reporter & AnchorJohn Carroll is a general assignment reporter and anchor at KPBS. He loves coming up with story ideas that are not being covered elsewhere, but he’s also ready to cover the breaking news of the day.
John studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University, having fallen in love with the medium after a high school internship at WMAQ TV in Chicago. Over the years, he has worked in Reno, Los Angeles, and San Diego. He has worked as a reporter for San Diego’s Channel 10 and a weekend reporter/anchor at San Diego’s CW6.
John loves being at KPBS because he’s given the support and the resources needed to do the kind of thorough, fair reporting the KPBS audience relies on.
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The owner of Geppetto's toy stores tells KPBS how he has managed to keep inventory on the shelves even with supply chain challenges. -
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose Tuesday for the seventh consecutive day. -
When COVID-19 hit, funding plummeted for Arts For Learning San Diego. -
A Wendy's restaurant in Santee held a fundraiser for the two families whose homes were destroyed, and the NTSB has released a preliminary report. -
The median price of a home in San Diego County moved up to $740,000 in September. -
The yearly military economic report shows the military accounts for hundreds of thousands of jobs in the region.
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Teamsters were picketing outside First Transit in El Centro as of Tuesday morning, according to the local's Twitter feed. Drivers in San Diego stopped work in solidarity. -
Two U.S. Army veterans who were deported to Mexico a decade ago won their long battle to return to the U.S. and become citizens. -
Cunningham piloted the first manned Apollo mission, a key step in the drive to reach the moon, but he never flew in space again. He was a physicist who later became known as a climate-change skeptic.
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