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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Builders of "Village 2" in Otay Ranch respond to a changing home market with smaller homes and innovative designs. -
A new program in San Diego is teaching high school athletes some skills that could help them save a teammate's life. -
Special Yearly Cleanup In River Estuary Nets Garbage Bonanza -
Using Active Duty SEALS As Actors -
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Nakita Garcia, a 24-year-old San Diegan, is battling breast cancer, a disease that's almost unheard of in women her age.
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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. -
Something still smells rotten in the village of La Jolla. Now there's a renewed push to find solutions to the stinky problem. -
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.
- Protesters at UC San Diego ‘Stand Up for Science'
- North County LGBTQ Resource Center rejects Pride month proclamation over Oceanside’s Pride flag reversal
- Trump travel ban shuts out former US allies in Afghanistan
- Several Jewish organizations withdraw from San Diego Pride over Kehlani performance
- 'Ballerina' delivers killer action, but 'Wick is Pain' hits harder