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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Former Salt Ponds Restored To Natural Habitat -
San Diego professor has taken a lifelong passion and turned it into the Center for Surf Research at San Diego State University in an effort to cast an academic eye on a multi-billion dollar international industry. -
Morse High School has installed a garden and a new kitchen to bring the "farm-to-table" movement to their campus. -
There are few things more harrowing for parents than having a child with cancer. A San Diego Foundation tries to make things a little easier. -
UC San Diego is now home to the world's largest surgery simulation lab. It's part of a new $70 million state-of-the-art medical training center on the La Jolla campus. -
A San Diego homeowner wanted to reduce her increasing utility bills. After a home energy audit, she was surprised how much energy her home loses and how much it would cost to change it.
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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.
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