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 EditionA San Diego bankruptcy judge ruled in favor of San Diego county's last licensed medical marijuana co-op. The Mother Earth Alternative Healing Cooperative can stay open for another 45 days. This is the latest in the tug of war between federal and state law. Medical marijuana activists are working to get approval for collectives onto city ballots around the county. -
KPBS Midday EditionSally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday in La Jolla after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe Colorado-shooting suspect reportedly spent $14,000 in gear, guns and ammunition for the attack. We'll talk about where this nation stands on the issue of gun control. Will this shooting renew calls for gun regulation? -
KPBS Midday EditionOpponents of a proposed power plant near Mission Trails Park win a victory, but the war's not over. -
KPBS Midday EditionMitch Blacher, an investigative reporter with 10News, says he has analyzed secret documents the Boy Scouts of America did not want the public to see. -
KPBS Midday EditionNot long ago, San Diego seemed to be on the path to bankruptcy as a way out of chronic multimillion dollar deficits. Now San Diego's mayor says chronic deficits are a thing of the past here. We'll hear about the factors that have contributed to the financial meltdown in San Bernardino and whether other California cities are also headed off the financial cliff into bankruptcy.
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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