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 San Diego City Council voted to approve implementation procedures for the commission, over the objections of the San Diego Police Officers Association. -
It's "Kids Free San Diego" Month, and more than 50 places are participating from Oceanside down to the border. -
A new program creates incentives to build affordable housing and provides help to homebuyers and renters. -
After a two-year hiatus, the show is back. But Veterans For Peace and 16 other groups say the amount of pollution it emits over three days isn't worth it. -
The agreement utilizes a cap-and-trade arrangement in which the Port makes money from carbon credits. -
KPBS reporter John Carroll was one of the lucky few to be in the church that day in February of 1983.
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The county has now tested more than 29,000 individuals for COVID-19, and around 96% of those tested negative for the virus. -
Authorities Thursday will continue releasing inmates without bail in compliance with a state order to reduce prison populations in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19. -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has revealed an outline for lifting coronavirus restrictions in the nation's most populous state. Newsom he wants to see hospitalization numbers flatten and decline before he begins rolling back stay-at-home orders. But he said things won't look the same when the state reopens.
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