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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Dwane Brown interviews Raymond Chavez, who was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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If it's proven economically viable, this promising biofuel could bring jobs and money to San Diego in the future. -
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Hospice care offers an alternative to dying in a hospital hooked up to machines. But most people don't know about it. -
Changing demographics and changing families pose new challenges for elderly people in need of care. -
Birds Of Prey Keep Seagulls Away
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A new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that microplastics are at highest concentrations hundreds of meters below the ocean surface. -
KPBS Midday EditionPeople living out of their vehicles are upset about the city of San Diego's new vehicle habitation ordinance, but residents near the beach are hoping the law provides relief to an influx of campers. -
KPBS Midday EditionAs more growers enter the cannabis cultivation business in California, businesses are getting ready for a changing market.
- City of San Diego files countersuit against some Jan. 22 flood victims
- San Diego could soon allow buying and selling ADUs
- Pope Leo XIV makes first US bishop appointment in San Diego
- What we know about the San Diego plane crash and the 6 on board who died
- SANDAG's new rail realignment plan is an old one: Keep tracks on bluffs