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 trial is considered a watershed moment for some of the civil rights protections Americans have today. -
KPBS Midday EditionHealth care providers are expecting an influx of people coming to California to obtain an abortion from states where they are now illegal. -
Rady Children's Hospital is getting prepared to set up its vaccine clinics for babies and toddlers to receive COVID-19 vaccines starting next week. -
KPBS Midday EditionA KPBS Midday Edition special looking at the issues involved in reparations for African Americans, in the wake of the interim report released by the California Reparations Task Force in June. -
Updates on key races in San Diego County and California as votes continue to be tallied. -
A series of webinars beginning on Wednesday at 6 p.m. aim to teach members of the public how to access public records as a way to expose injustice.
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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.
- Live election results: San Diego County District 1 Supervisor
- Paloma Aguirre wins Board of Supervisors seat, John McCann concedes
- Federal data reveals the truth about immigrant detention
- San Diego beach closures, advisories posted as July Fourth holiday approaches
- 'Democracies can disappear fast.’ Expert warns of backsliding after San Diego protests