Pat Finn
ProducerPat Finn previously served as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and KPBS Evening Edition. Finn began her career in broadcasting at KTLA and KCET in Los Angeles. In 1979 she became KPBS’ Public Information Director, then Director of Advertising and Promotion, Program Director, and Director of Broadcasting. She oversaw the station’s local and national productions, including the one-hour documentary Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar, and Child Protective Services, a one-hour look inside the San Diego County agency responsible for the welfare of at risk children. Both programs also aired on public television stations nationwide. Finn has earned honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Week two in San Diego's ongoing civic tornado finds Donna Frye erupting with anger, Mayor Bob Filner saying he has a monster inside him, Walt Ekard taking over as Chief Operating Officer and more Democrats calling on Filner to resign. -
Responding to calls for his resignation from former allies over multiple sexual harassment allegations, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologized via DVD Wednesday. He says he will stay in office. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego's mayor and city attorney are awash in controversy and bad PR: Filner for Sunroad's donation to the city, Goldsmith for a possible violation of the Brown Act and the loss of the prosecution of "Chalkgate." Meanwhile, yoga in schools is not religious. -
KPBS Midday EditionDeMaio asserts that the Reform San Diego funds and his campaign funds are completely separate, even through they shared a P.O. box and a phone number. California legislators are backtracking on a move to gut the state's Public Records Act. Two local universities receive rare good marks in the brand-new U.S. News rankings of teacher training programs. Why don't they seem to care? -
KPBS Midday EditionThere's a burgeoning underground market in San Diego taxi permits. The North Coast Transit District has received a scathing audit of its practices. Parents deported by the INS must leave their American-born kids behind. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Onofre to shut down for good and disgraced Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham is out of prison and on parole.
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