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 Russian invasion is taking a direct toll on the people of Ukraine, but its repercussions are far reaching. -
A local expert talks about the importance of COVID-19 boosters and the new BA.2 variant. -
A story by Voice of San Diego Managing Editor Andrew Keatts looks at the hard choices some people are making to be able to buy a home, and the trade offs that come with those decisions. -
SDSU associate professor Adisa Alkebulan said the reassignment of a tenured professor over the use of racial epithets in the classroom is a symptom of "larger cultural deficiencies" at the university. Black students and faculty are hurting, he said. -
Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration suggested a tax-rebate proposal might be offered to help consumers. Other lawmakers say the state should issue a new round of stimulus checks or lift the gas tax for a limited time. -
KPBS Midday EditionA pair of bills introduced by San Diego-area legislators aim to expand California's access to abortion care and reproductive health care.
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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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- La Mesa-Spring Valley, Lemon Grove school mental health grants cut early by Trump administration
- Man arrested in ICE raid near El Cajon is back with his family
- Trump pulls millions in grants from San Diego-area schools
- 50 years later: San Diego’s USS Midway and the fall of Sàigòn