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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Twenty-one year old Max Lenail was an experienced hiker. But the swift waters of the San Diego River were too much on Jan. 29, 2021 and he drowned while trying to cross the river in Mission Trails Regional Park. Now his parents are working to get a bridge built. -
Now that the San Diego Convention Center is no longer housing the homeless, it's expected to begin welcoming unaccompanied migrant children — up to 1,400 of them — this weekend. -
As unsheltered people are relocated to homeless shelters, the San Diego Convention Center is preparing for the first groups of migrant children seeking asylum to arrive this weekend. -
Last minute efforts are underway to save the museum, which is the only one in the country dedicated to Marine Corps aviation. -
KPBS Midday EditionOur series on the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic continues with a look at how major health care organizations responded and the impact it will have going forward. -
Supervisor Nathan Fletcher marked the occasion by visiting the Tubman-Chavez Community Center in southeast San Diego, one of more than 30 county-sponsored vaccination sites.
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County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced that bank employees, public transportation workers and childcare providers who serve food must now wear non-medical grade facial coverings at work. -
The county also reported deaths by racial breakdown for the first time on Wednesday: 15 white, 10 Hispanic/Latino, two Asian and the remaining nine fatalities unidentified by race or ethnicity. -
The new cases are the fewest reported in the county since March 28 and the second fewest in two weeks, but the number of deaths is by far the largest increase since the public health emergency began.
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