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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Going from high school to the competitive world of horse racing doesn't happen often. But 18-year-old Eswan Flores, made it his dream.
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The biggest desalination plant in the western hemisphere is due to begin construction soon in San Diego County. Within the next four years it could be providing up to 10 percent of this region’s drinking water. -
School board meetings, crowded with parents supporting and opposing an in-school yoga program, haven't changed the Encinitas district's plans. -
The San Diego International Auto Show opened at the Convention Center to show off new styles and technology.
- Family ordeal highlights importance of Habeas Corpus in immigration cases
- What we know about the San Diego plane crash and the 6 on board who died
- City of San Diego files countersuit against some Jan. 22 flood victims
- Pope Leo XIV makes first US bishop appointment in San Diego
- Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young