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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'Blueprints To Freedom' Among New Plays In La Jolla Playhouse's Innovative Program -
KPBS Midday EditionNew Artistic Director Barry Edelstein On The Bard, Clarity, And His Globe Directorial Debut -
Choreographer Michael Mizerany Challenges Expectations At Diversionary Theatre -
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Theater Alive Moves To Larger Venue At 10th Avenue Theater -
Modern Day Knights Joust At Poway Rodeo
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A San Diego private school drew in Chinese campers this summer for an intensive program on applying to American colleges. -
A young church in the Valencia Park neighborhood of Southeast San Diego is playing hip hop music during its services. The pastor says hip hop is already central to many young people's lives, so he wants it to also be central to their church. -
Try setting fire to biofuel on a commercial flight, and you'd probably get taken in by Homeland Security, but try the same thing on a jet simulating the weightlessness of space, and it's called science.
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