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 EditionAfter President Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway used the term "alternate facts" to describe a falsehood about the inauguration turnout, demand for George Orwell's literary masterpiece "1984" quickly spiked. A new collection of short stories considers what happens when privacy vanishes and our neighbors, not government, are the ones watching. -
KPBS Midday EditionPresident Donald Trump's political transition team will review all scientific data on the Environmental Protection Agency's website, including climate change data. The American Association for the Advancement of Science says the level of anxiety in the scientific community has never been higher. -
KPBS Midday EditionPresident Trump's revised travel ban blocked Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days before being put on hold by a federal judge in March. Two teenage sisters who fled Syria in 2012 with their family explain why studying music in San Diego has meant so much to them. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe reproduction rituals of underwater creatures can be a bit bizarre. Author Marah Hardt researched those practices as a way to spread awareness about ocean sustainability. -
KPBS Midday EditionA new PBS documentary explores the stories of families struggling with the disease. But how close are scientists to developing treatments that could cure the disease, not just manage symptoms? -
KPBS Midday EditionEveryone knows that simple Slinkys are rather remarkable toys, but why and how do they seem to walk? The Fleet Science Center is putting on an exhibit Saturday on the physics behind common toys.
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