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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San Diego is hot and humid this weekend with heat advisories in several areas. To help beat the hot weather, the county has set up locations to cool off. -
Someone painted a curb red on a La Jolla street, ostensibly to deter beach parkers. Now the Surfrider Foundation is trying to do something about it. -
Now that indoor dining has once again been suspended, Poway Mayor Steve Vaus is proposing that his city buy picnic tables to loan to restaurants for outdoor dining. -
A lot of tourists who drive to San Diego come from Arizona. The problem? There's a huge spike in COVID-19 cases in Arizona right now. -
On this Juneteenth, the 12 Roman Catholic and 2 Eastern Rite Catholic dioceses in California created a virtual representations of the stations of the Cross. Church leaders say it's a way to show they're serious about combating racism. -
More than 150 local groups are joining forces to urge San Diegans to fill out the 2020 Census. They're focusing on so-called "hard to count" communities, made up primarily of immigrants and refugees, to get them to fill out their Census forms.
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Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego and Rep. Mike Levin, D-Oceanside, joined a growing group of Democrats on Thursday calling on President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. -
The vote comes after an investigation into accusations that Phelps bullied Del Norte High School students. -
In California and other Western states, courts have ruled it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
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