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 -
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. -
New Exhibit Explores A New Day For An Old Instrument -
The "Share Our Shores" program is part of a pilot curriculum to help students learn about the environment -
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A small insect carries the potential to kill San Diego County's commercial citrus industry. The Asian citrus psyllid is capable of spreading a disease that could wipe out a decades-old fixture of San Diego County's agricultural landscape. -
KPBS Midday EditionMajor changes are coming to classrooms across San Diego County and California this year. Schools are switching to new math and English standards that promise to improve students’ critical thinking and to better prepare them for college and career. -
That feeling you get when your cell phone is just about to die has a name: "Battery anxiety." And wireless companies hope to soon make it a thing of the past, if they can put aside their differences.
- San Diego’s highest paid city employees? Cops racking up overtime and earning over $400,000
- Authorities find no threat aboard grounded Hawaiian Airlines plane at San Diego Airport
- UC San Diego study explores why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer’s
- Homelessness in San Diego County drops 7% amid progress in key areas
- NIH cuts put San Diego’s $57B life sciences sector at risk