
Nicholas McVicker
News EditorNic McVicker has been part of the KPBS News team since 2011 and has had the pleasure of serving the San Diego community by telling their stories. As editor, McVicker is dedicated to helping KPBS reporters best serve the audience with diverse sources and unique stories.
He grew up in the Midwest until the snow blew him and his family out West to San Diego where he enjoys local craft beer, sports, and a day at the beach. McVicker graduated from the University of Northern Iowa, where he studied Electronic Media and Communications. He worked at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, as an editor and photojournalist. While at WHO-TV, he had the opportunity to cover the first in the nation's caucus' interviewing Barack Obama and John McCain in 2007 and 2008.
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Play Progresses Through La Jolla Playhouse's Development Programs
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KPBS Midday EditionThe fire, which started Tuesday afternoon in the dry bed of the San Diego River on the east end of the Carlton Oaks Country Club, reignited Wednesday morning and threatened about a dozen homes.
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New Exhibit Explores A New Day For An Old Instrument
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The "Share Our Shores" program is part of a pilot curriculum to help students learn about the environment
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Spoiler Alert: I'm Going To Tell You How Verdi's Opera Ends
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The journal Science has called the gene-editing tool CRISPR its "breakthrough of the year." In 2015, scientists used CRISPR to make precise changes to DNA in animals, human embryos and — as one team at UC San Diego demonstrated — insects.
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Something still smells rotten in the village of La Jolla. Now there's a renewed push to find solutions to the stinky problem.
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Politics at home and abroad have sharply divided the Jewish community in San Diego. KPBS sat in on a Hanukkah dinner with a group of friends seeking reconciliation.
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- EPA head and Mexican government sign agreement to end Tijuana sewage flows
- Fearing lawsuits, El Cajon Police stopped responding to some mental health calls
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