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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While more people entered homelessness than found housing in March, the gap between the two has been narrowing. -
Employees filled the company's cafeteria floor, taking chat questions from customers around the country. -
Thursday marked the opening of an expanded pantry; they call it a marketplace. It's twice the size of the old one. -
The new federal budget will put $156 million toward fixing and expanding the plant, but some say it's not nearly enough. -
The iconic theater in downtown San Diego has seen a lot in the last century, and it's come perilously close to being demolished. -
KPBS checks in with a renter and a business owner whose lives were upended by the flood.
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The county has reported 24 deaths from the respiratory illness over a two-day period, the deadliest two-day stretch since the coronavirus outbreak began. -
County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said even with the updated numbers, members of the public were largely doing their part to avoid spreading the illness. -
The county has now tested more than 29,000 individuals for COVID-19, and around 96% of those tested negative for the virus.
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