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 Google search for "Carnival Splendor" returns more than 6,000 articles from news organizations around the world. The phrase "cholera in Haiti" turns up fewer than 900 articles. Even some of the people aboard the stranded ship this week wondered if their story merited all the attention.
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The cruise ship stranded off the coast of Southern California since Monday will be towed into San Diego’s downtown harbor Thursday morning. Getting the ship’s passengers back to land has not taken as long as initially expected.
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Some San Diego State University students are wondering how they’ll manage to cover the cost of going to school next year after Cal State University trustees approved a 15 percent tuition increase by next fall.
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Democrat Susan Davis coasted to re-election yesterday with nearly 62 percent of the vote in San Diego County’s 53rd Congressional District. -
Incumbent County Supervisors Ron Roberts and Bill Horn will both return to their seats. Tuesday was the first time since the 1990’s either was forced into a November vote. -
Nearly three-quarters of San Diego County voters cast their ballot in favor of Proposition A Tuesday. The measure will add a permanent ban on project labor agreements to the county charter.
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