Kyla Calvert
Education ReporterKyla Calvert is the education reporter forKPBS, producing multimedia content for radio, television and the Web. Kyla began producing web content while working in marketing in San Francisco. She decided to change careers and received a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in digital media from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2009. While in school she freelanced for City Hall and The Capitol newspapers covering New York City and state politics and policy. After completing her degree, she worked as a fellow for Hearst Newspapers on “Dead By Mistake” a nationwide investigative project about medical error. The project received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Kyla moved to San Diego from Beaufort County, South Carolina where she covered county government for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.
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A new federal report shows San Diego’s economic output shrank by 2.4 percent in 2009. That decline matches the average for all metropolitan areas.
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Job growth is expected to pick up in San Diego County this year and one organization wants to help drive that growth by attracting high-salary positions to the region.
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About 300 more people joined the homeless ranks in San Diego County over the last year. That number has grown for the last four years. -
San Diegans closely watch events in Cairo as President Hosni Mubarak defies calls for his resignation. -
About $2.4 billion in federal stimulus funding has been slated for San Diego County since the program started in February 2009. The money has supported about 2,100 projects in the region.
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Poor families spending half of their earnings or more on rent jumped by 20 percent recently, according to a federal report. The problem is acute in San Diego.
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