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 EditionThere is a shortage of musicians in the armed forces to play taps at military funerals. So funeral honor guards have increasingly used pre-recorded versions, often played through a speaker that fits inside a regular bugle. -
KPBS Midday EditionA new Zika study led by San Diego scientists is not actually all that new. The researchers have known pretty much everything in the paper for months, and they made their findings public long before the study was published in a journal. -
KPBS Midday EditionSDSU Athletic Director John David Wicker talks about the school's desire to have a new stadium and more room for its research programs.
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