Mark Sauer
Host, The RoundtableA newspaperman for more than 30 years, Mark Sauer joined KPBS in October 2010 and previously served as the host of the KPBS Roundtable. He spent 27 years as a reporter and editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune after stints at The Houston Post and at two papers in his native Michigan. A features/human-interest writer in the UT's Currents section for many years, Mark also spent about a third of his UT career as an editor and reporter on the Metro Desk. He has covered a wide range of events: Wild fires in Southern California and Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; Super Bowls and the World Series; foster care and child-abuse issues; the Roman Catholic Diocese's sexual-abuse scandal and bankruptcy; royal visits of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Diana; Republican and Democratic national conventions; high-profile criminal trials; and many other stories, from the silly to the sublime. Along the way, he interviewed everyone from presidents to pan-handlers. His work exposing the false accusations and prosecutions of several San Diegans for murder, rape and child abuse garnered Pulitzer Prize nominations and many regional and local journalism awards, including Best in the West, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism and several San Diego and California bar-association awards. Mark has a degree in journalism from Michigan State University.
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Citizens' Climate Lobby, a Coronado-based nonprofit advocating for national policies to address climate change, has won the 2020 Keeling Curve Prize for its work to advance bipartisan climate change mitigation policies. -
KPBS Midday EditionIf we’re ever going to have self-driving cars, they will need to be able to talk wirelessly to one another and to roadside monitoring infrastructure, like traffic signals. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego Pride has worked to rethink its events, making them available for virtual audiences. Organizers say the online format has proven more inclusive, as scores more people are participating online than typically have attended the same events in years past. -
New Blackhawk helicopters are replacing the state agency's Vietnam-era Hueys. Newly hired firefighters will replace many of the inmate crews no longer available because of COVID-19 precautions or early release. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn 2020, "Plastic-Free July" comes at a time of setback for those fighting plastic pollution, due to the coronavirus pandemic. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd has led to a call to defund school police, which has already happened in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed.
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In a statement, the 75-year-old Davis said she's ready to return to her Southern California home after serving in Congress since January 2001.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps