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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Members of a group called Mass Resistance protested Drag Queen Story Hour at a Chula Vista library. Counter-protesters were there to meet them. -
New Carlsbad Connector shuttle service meant to solve "first mile/last mile" gap between the Coaster train and the rest of the city. -
California is spending $187 million to make sure every Californian is counted in the 2020 census. -
With San Diegans cranking up the air conditioning, KPBS looks at how SDG&E's new Time-Of-Use billing plan could impact what you pay for power. -
San Diego Roman Catholic Bishop Robert McElroy gathered all 2,500 diocesan employees to lay out new policies regarding the sexual abuse of children. -
A floating robot to clean plastic out of the ocean was tested by USD engineering students in Mission Bay on Friday.
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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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