
Maya Trabulsi
KPBS Evening Edition AnchorMaya Trabulsi is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist who anchors KPBS Evening Edition. Maya was born in Beirut and grew up in Dubai and the United Kingdom. She came to San Diego after completing her B.A. in media communications with a minor degree in women’s studies from Webster University. She also holds a master’s degree in television, film, and new media studies from San Diego State University.
Since joining KPBS in 2014, Maya’s work has been recognized both regionally and nationally with first place awards for reporting and video editing from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Society of Professional Journalists, Radio and Television News Association, and the National Press Club.
In 2023, the San Diego Press club honored her investigative reporting on animal welfare issues with a first place award for her body of work. In 2024, Maya received her 8th and 9th Golden Mike awards, as well as a second Emmy for journalistic enterprise. She later received national recognition for her investigation into an unscrupulous dog breeder operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border when she won the Ann Cottrell Free award from the National Press Club.
Maya is an avid martial artist and holds a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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Grape Day Park has long been a gathering place in Escondido — and a reflection of the city’s changing identity.
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Fallbrook Gourd Farm honors the culturally significant fruit
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The Trees For Health garden in Balboa Park introduces San Diegans to the medicinal uses of plants growing all around them.
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KPBS Explores Hidden San Diego shows us a butterfly garden with a unique past.
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Babs Fry is committed to recovering lost animals as a community service to San Diegans.
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KPBS takes a look at the arc of women's voices through historical artifacts at the new home of the Women's Museum of California.
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California is joining with the federal government to open two new vaccination centers as test areas for new President Joseph Biden’s effort to create 100 mass vaccination sites nationwide in 100 days.
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- UCSD nurses decry layoffs, saying patient care will be affected
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An analysis of Zillow page views shows who's interested in moving to San Diego, and where San Diegans might end up if they move out.
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San Diego’s quality of life is measured in new USD Report
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A SANDAG survey asks commuters, who drive to work alone if they'd consider alternative transportation, even if it's only one day a week.
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A new study by ApartmentList.com shows teachers in San Diego are facing financial hardship because their salaries have not kept up with the rising cost of housing.
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California State University San Marcos is about to graduate the school’s largest class in its 29-year history.
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National University has launched a coordinated effort to address the teacher shortage in the areas of San Diego County that have the highest need.
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KPBS Midday EditionMothers with a Message walks a path of forgiveness by making murderers understand what they’ve done.
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KPBS Midday EditionA documentary film resurfaces a local championship and the personal tragedy that followed.
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Patients in San Diego and across the country urge the FDA to expand the legal use of fecal microbiota transplantation.
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Brother Blaise of Oceanside's Prince of Peace Abbey will carry beekeeping to the end of his days.