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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KPBS Midday EditionPrisoners have long taken correspondence courses to earn college credits behind bars. But inmates at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa are participating in a rare face-to-face program. -
Ana Širović, an oceanographer at the Marine Bioacoustics Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is trying to find out what sounds fish make in the kelp beds off La Jolla Shores. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax are among the most widely prescribed medications in the country. And doctors say they can be dangerous.
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