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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The San Diego City Council has approved Mayor Jerry Sanders budget proposal for next year, but now two powerful citizens groups are coming out with their own ideas. Who are these citizens groups, and what are their recommendations for the city? Also, how do the recommendations from at least one of the groups conflict with the mayor's most recent budget proposal?
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How has etiquette for hosts changed over the years? What's expected of those hosting parties and their guests these days? Etiquette expert Elaine Swann answers all your etiquette questions and shares a few horror stories.
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Sherri Lightner, who represents San Diego City Council District 1, talks about the past year as a brand-new council member, how she has addressed her campaign goals and what she would like to see happen for the City of San Diego in 2010.
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A science delegation from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen presenting findings on the threat climate change poses to the world's oceans.
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A task force on medical marijuana dispensaries reported Tuesday to the City Council. Alex Kreit, the chair of the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force goes on the record about medical marijuana law and the editors discuss. -
The Chargers have located a potential new stadium site just east of Petco Park where the Wonder Bread Bakery currently stands in the 100 block of 14th street. Should public funds be used on the potential downtown stadium site in San Diego? The editors discuss.
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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.
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