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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The San Diego County Department of Agriculture released the 2011 crops report today and also issued a warning. -
This is the second summer in a row that a San Diego beach has been closed due to a great white shark. Some researchers say sightings of the top predators are on the rise. -
Two San Diegans are part of an international organ donation chain. It started last December when a woman in Oklahoma gave her kidney to a man in Greece. -
Teen girls with a history of trouble and low self-esteem often fall prey to sex traffickers. A youth organization in City Heights is working to prevent girls from becoming victims. -
Take a tour of the new building rising up above Petco Park downtown, the New Central Library.
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An artist enlists the children of City Heights to create an installation for the whole community. Warning: some of this content is unbearably cute. -
A group of retirement center residents in Carlsbad have started a group called Atheists Anonymous. But the group's leader says their reception hasn't been positive. -
A new winter homeless shelter for North County families will open this year, but not in December like the other shelters.
- Students who blew whistle on Canyon Crest Academy Foundation feel vindicated by audit report
- Poway is a paradise of single-family zoning and protected open space
- Tech-savvy scammers targeting growing number of San Diego seniors
- US Coast Guard Eagle to make first San Diego visit since 2008
- Court dismisses sexual harassment case against former county Supervisor Nathan Fletcher