Michael Lipkin
News Producer, KPBS Midday EditionMichael Lipkin is a producer for KPBS Midday Edition. Before joining KPBS, he covered finance for the San Diego Business Journal and legal affairs for newswire Law360. He was also a producer for Chicago Tonight, a nightly news magazine on PBS member station WTTW. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Boston Globe, and on the PBS NewsHour. Michael is originally from Brooklyn. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Law, Letters and Society.
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KPBS Midday EditionRubin will discuss "The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better (And Other People's Lives Better, Too)" at events in Rancho Santa Fe and San Diego on Wednesday. -
KPBS Midday EditionCritics of San Diego's move toward community choice aggregation have formed a coalition questioning a potential plan to let the city buy power separately from San Diego Gas & Electric. -
KPBS Midday EditionVideo game designer Zoe Quinn was the target of an online harassment campaign in 2014. She received rape and death threats, people hacked her accounts, stalked her in person and threatened her family. -
![This sculpture by artist Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled (Circumstantial [12 coconuts]), 1971, shown in a photo taken in Miami in 2015. The work is acrylic on canvas, coconuts, and rope, is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. It's part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/cfd1c66/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1206x672+0+114/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fimg%2Fphotos%2F2017%2F09%2F13%2FEugenio-Espinoza_-Untitled-_Circumstantial-_12-coconuts___-1971.jpg)
KPBS Midday EditionPacific Standard Time: LA/LA kicked off this month with shows in more than 70 museums and artists from 45 countries. There will be pieces from the pre-Columbian Americas, but most of the works will feature modern artists, including some of the very Chicano artists who were kept out of Los Angeles' most prestigious museums just a few decades ago. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn 1999 San Diego-native Paul Vaden knocked out his opponent Stephan Johnson. Two weeks later, Johnson died. The film, "Vaden Versus," tells the story of how that event forever changed Vaden. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn the midst of the county's hepatitis A outbreak, columnist Dan McSwain did not hesitate to take city of San Diego leaders to task. The city, he wrote, faces "full-blown crises of public safety and public health, the twin imperatives of any functioning government."
![This sculpture by artist Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled (Circumstantial [12 coconuts]), 1971, shown in a photo taken in Miami in 2015. The work is acrylic on canvas, coconuts, and rope, is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. It's part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/fe43cf2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1206x672+0+114/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fimg%2Fphotos%2F2017%2F09%2F13%2FEugenio-Espinoza_-Untitled-_Circumstantial-_12-coconuts___-1971.jpg)
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