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 City Heights-based organization is bringing community groups and government officials together to provide better services for immigrants suffering from emotional disorders. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diegans redoing their landscaping to make it water-wise have probably learned a lot about succulents. The thick, fleshy plants that store water in their leaves are now ubiquitous in neighborhoods across the region. But what might not be as well known is that succulents, including cactus, are big business in San Diego County. -
KPBS Midday EditionIt's only been a few days since a gunman in Las Vegas killed 58 people attending the Harvest 91 Country Music Festival, and injured more than 500. Many of us, all across America, are asking why and how such a tragedy could happen. We asked members of the KPBS Public Insight Network how the mass shooting is affecting them personally. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diegan Briana Waris, 28, and her two best friends, Michelle Kenbeek and Elizabeth Carvalho, both 29, were among the 22,000 fans at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when the rapid pop of gunshots began to be heard over the music. -
KPBS Midday EditionOn the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Alfred Olango, members of his family are renewing their calls for justice. -
KPBS Midday Edition"When a plane crashes, experts pick through the wreckage to determine the cause and make recommendations to prevent the next accident," journalist Pagan Kennedy, a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times, wrote. "But no comparable system exists in policing — and that may help explain why you are far more likely to die at the hands of a cop than to perish in an plane crash."
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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.
- Cal Fire: Failed catalytic converter sparked Springs Fire
- A volunteer legal observer says she was left bruised after being detained by ICE agents at federal courthouse
- Democracy report card: Experts weigh in on where the US stands
- Why San Diego police are sometimes on scene during ICE raids
- SANDAG pares back freeway expansions in draft transportation plan