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 EditionMotion is the subject of a new exhibit at the Fleet Science Center, a combination of art that either moves or is about movement with educational stations explaining concepts like waves or gravity. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe word telomeres is probably not part of your everyday vocabulary, but new research suggests these regions at the end of chromosomes play a vital role in our cells' aging processes. -
KPBS Midday EditionNorm Johnson served as a military bodyguard to General Douglas MacArthur and danced with Elvis Presley in "Jailhouse Rock." But the one accomplishment he's been waiting decades for? Graduating high school. -
KPBS Midday EditionAsian Americans and Latinos in California are less likely to sign petitions or contact public officials than white Californians, according to a new report showing significant racial disparities in political participation. -
KPBS Midday EditionPresident Trump has labeled the press as an “opposition party,” repeated multiple falsehoods about election fraud and on Monday tweeted that any coverage of unfavorable poll results is “fake news.” Newsrooms across the country are deciding how to cover an administration that’s hostile to the press and imprecise with the truth. -
KPBS Midday EditionPresident Trump's unsupported claim of widespread voter fraud in California and other states is "a lie," California Secretary of State Alex Padilla told CNN last week. Padilla will be in San Diego on Thursday to give a lecture to a UC San Diego political science class studying the Voting Rights Act.
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