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 EditionThe budget signed this summer by Gov. Jerry Brown cut more than $500 million from California courts. The first round of cuts to San Diego Superior courts have now taken place. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe owners of U-T San Diego announced today that they are purchasing the North County Times. -
KPBS Midday EditionWhere were you when the lights went out? We remember the Great Blackout of 2011. -
KPBS Midday EditionRichard is a 26-year-old U.S. Army veteran who grew up in San Diego. He said after returning from his first deployment to Iraq, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and constantly felt on edge. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe Democratic National Convention gets underway tomorrow, Republicans held their convention last week. We hear from the author of 'The Candidate - What it takes to win and hold the White House. -
KPBS Midday EditionOne of the major stories of the week that perhaps you haven't heard, is a record-setting ice melt at the Arctic. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist will tell us what that indicates about the rate of climate change.
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The Guardian found many California cities spent more COVID-19 relief funds on law enforcement than rent relief and health services. -
The federal agency says sea levels on the West Coast will rise 8 inches by 2050, 1½ feet by the end of the century. -
With Alice Childress' 1955 play "Trouble in Mind," The Old Globe brings questions and conflicts about diversity in the American theater to center stage.
- Algunos agricultores de Florida reducen sus cultivos porque el temor a deportaciones aleja a trabajadores
- Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
- Tinted sunscreen does something regular sun protection can't
- SpaceX postpones 10th test launch of massive Starship rocket
- Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts again and shoots lava for 31st time since December