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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KPBS Midday EditionAs a plague of wildfires torches large sections of the state, many California homeowners are discovering that fire insurance is either out of their reach financially or not available for any price. Ricardo Lara, California's insurance commissioner, is searching for solutions. -
KPBS Midday EditionOn Monday, the Centers for Disease Control removed language about the spread of the coronavirus through aerosol particles from its website, information they had just posted Friday. A renowned UC San Diego atmospheric chemist explains what science believes about aerosols and the coronavirus on KPBS Midday Edition. -
Two years ago Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a plan to make all California's energy supply carbon-free by 2045. The devastating wildfires and intense heat of 2020 have caused environmental groups to lobby to move that date up 15 years. -
Citizens' Climate Lobby, a Coronado-based nonprofit advocating for national policies to address climate change, has won the 2020 Keeling Curve Prize for its work to advance bipartisan climate change mitigation policies. -
KPBS Midday EditionA committee of SDSU's Faculty Senate is considering a proposal to allow the university president to revoke emeritus status and its privileges held by retired professors who cause harm to the university's reputation. -
New Blackhawk helicopters are replacing the state agency's Vietnam-era Hueys. Newly hired firefighters will replace many of the inmate crews no longer available because of COVID-19 precautions or early release.
- Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- Litigation at Green Oak Ranch in Vista continues and postpones future events
- Could this deadly intersection become San Diego's next 'quick-build' roundabout?
- California attorney general launches civil rights investigation into San Diego juvenile halls
- Preventable hospitalizations in California show continued health disparities as Medicaid faces possible cuts