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 EditionSept. 15 marked International Day of Democracy, as designated by the United Nations. -
Your thoughts and experiences may be included in a special KPBS Midday Edition program. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe case that inspired the founding of the California Innocence Project is finally over. -
It happens to the best of us. You wake up one summer morning, casually stroll through your home, and are confronted with ants. Ants swarming on the cat food, ants marching one by one into your garbage, ants, claiming a beachhead in your bathroom. Where do they come from? Why are they here? And what can make them go away? -
Only 9% of children between six months and four years old have been vaccinated. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe pups are part of a total of 4,000 beagles taken in the largest animal rescue operation ever in the U.S.
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The Alzheimer's Association of San Diego/Imperial Counties chapter hosts a national leader in research and outreach for people living with the disease. -
The San Diego Community College District reopens for the fall semester with major plans for the future. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Greg Moran joined Midday Edition to talk about details of the case — and what is next.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps