Megan Burke
News EditorMegan Burke is an Emmy-award winning news editor overseeing the environment, health, and racial justice and social equity reporting beats. Prior to her current role as editor, Megan spent more than a decade as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition, a daily radio news magazine and podcast. Other news production credits include KPBS Evening Edition, KPBS Roundtable, and San Diego’s DNA, a two-part documentary highlighting the region’s oldest traditions and culture using personal artifacts and oral histories of San Diegans.
Before joining the news staff, Megan worked in KPBS’ outreach team and managed large-scale campaigns including KPBS’ domestic violence awareness and prevention initiative. The project included Emmy award-winning television spots, an extensive and interactive website, collaborative events and programming, as well as a statewide grant campaign. Megan is also credited with producing the Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month Local Hero Awards Ceremonies.
Megan is a graduate of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. She has been a part of the KPBS team since 1999. In her free time Megan and her husband enjoy delighting their young daughters with "new" music.
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KPBS Midday EditionAlliance San Diego reports its efforts to engage new-citizen voters and voters of color resulted in an 11 percent increase in overall voter turnout this past November in the city of San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionBroadway star Ben Vereen is back on stage and he's performing his one-man show in San Diego this weekend. -
KPBS Midday EditionVoters will go to the polls a week from today and cast ballots for one of nine people running to fill San Diego's 4th City Council seat. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn her new book, "American Umpire," San Diego State University Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman explains how America became the world's umpire. She says with sequestration, we have the opportunity to re-think our expensive and open-ended commitment to maintain military bases around around the world. -
KPBS Midday EditionFrom brain-power food to dance lessons for people with Parkinson's Disease and information on new therapies, there's a lot to get your neurons firing this weekend at the Brain Health Fair. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe last U.S. troops left Iraq in December 2011. Much of the American public was relieved to see American forces pulled out. But since then we have heard remarkably little about what is going on in the country we invaded back in 2003. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the U.S. war in Iraq, experts begin to examine the consequences.
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The Alzheimer's Association of San Diego/Imperial Counties chapter hosts a national leader in research and outreach for people living with the disease. -
The San Diego Community College District reopens for the fall semester with major plans for the future. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Greg Moran joined Midday Edition to talk about details of the case — and what is next.
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- Hundreds march to White House to protest Trump's D.C. crackdown