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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KPBS Midday EditionA plant called kratom is banned in San Diego, and the DEA is considering banning it nationwide. Some San Diegans say it has medicinal benefits. -
Spring rains in San Diego may have brought lush vegetation, but that could spell trouble in the upcoming fire season. -
The adult gray whale is about 40 feet long and weighs up to 60,000 pounds. Its carcass is rotting at a popular surfing spot near San Clemente. -
Reduce, reuse, recycle. That was the idea behind the big undertaking Monday in Hillcrest, where a house was loaded on to a truck and relocated to San Ysidro. -
Chelsea's Law mandates life prison terms for those convicted of certain violent sex crimes against children, increases law enforcement oversight of paroled sex offenders and prohibits released sex offenders from visiting places where children congregate. -
Experts at La Jolla convention ask when sea vegetables will be a staple of aquaculture
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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.
- La Jolla, Encanto and … MCAS Miramar? Here's where San Diego wants to tighten ADU regulations
- La Mesa-Spring Valley, Lemon Grove school mental health grants cut early by Trump administration
- Man arrested in ICE raid near El Cajon is back with his family
- Trump pulls millions in grants from San Diego-area schools
- 50 years later: San Diego’s USS Midway and the fall of Sàigòn
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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. -
KPBS Explores Hidden San Diego shows us a butterfly garden with a unique past. -
Babs Fry is committed to recovering lost animals as a community service to San Diegans. -
Each segment on the song rail plays a palindrome, which means the melody is the same played in both directions. -
A group of San Diego women in their late 50s and 60s hiked up Mount Kilimanjaro in February 2023. -
What many people don’t know about Peter Seidler is his infectious optimism for creating a better future for San Diego’s homeless population. -
A sanctuary in Santa Ysabel trains foxes in search and rescue nosework. -
Rescue organizations from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border were called to a puppy mill in Rosarito. What they found was horrifying. -
A lab that conducts studies for a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company is facing scrutiny over its use of beagles. -
Manpower hiring expert touts flexible work models for his employees — and the larger workforce
