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 EditionConsider fish for holidays. We'll get some tips on cooking tuna, tilapia and more from Chefs Bernard Guillas and Ron Oliver of the Marine Room. -
KPBS Midday EditionMany active-duty service members and veterans receive mental health treatment from civilian health care workers. But many of these providers lack adequate training to effectively treat people from a military background. -
KPBS Midday EditionNearly 60 percent of voters passed California's Prop. 47, which dropped some crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It went into effect immediately and is having a big impact on San Diego law enforcement. -
KPBS Midday EditionKPBS Midday Edition wants to hear how San Diegans are cutting back on their water use. Share your water saving tips by calling into the show at noon on Tuesday or by leaving a comment here. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego Asian Film Festival opens this Thursday. It has become the largest exhibition of Asian films in the Western United States. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego nonprofit teaches older adults to navigate the public transportation system in San Diego.
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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.
- New test for colon cancer could spot it before it spreads
- San Diego 101: Why is it so hard to build housing?
- First community-owned grocery store in San Diego’s South Bay to open this fall
- San Diego residents prepare for more access to coupons at grocery stores
- They already live on the edge. Trump’s immigration crackdowns now threaten their housing