Thomas Fudge
Science and Technology ReporterA journalist with 30 years of experience, Tom covers science and technology stories for KPBS' platforms. He joined KPBS in 1998 to cover San Diego issues related to growth, transportation, and development. He previously served as host of These Days (now KPBS Midday Edition) and as a news editor. Tom began his broadcasting career in 1988 at WSUI Radio in Iowa City as a reporter and newscaster. He then spent five years at Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) where he worked as a reporter. Following his departure from MPR, Tom was a freelance journalist, working for Twin Cities Public Television, WCCO Radio, and a variety of regional and national newspapers and magazines. He has received recognition for his outstanding work in hosting and public affairs reporting from the Unity Awards, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Talk radio has been a part of public radio for at least 20 years ever since somebody decided that not everything carrying the NPR brand had to be scripted, edited and pre-recorded. The state of public radio talk programs was a matter of discussion last month when I and people from stations around the country attended the annual Talk Show Conference, sponsored by PRNDI, Public Radio News Directors, Inc.
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A Camp Pendleton-based Marine, stationed at Camp Fallujah in Iraq, speaks with host Tom Fudge about life in a war zone.
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Economist Tim Harford explains the forces behind everything from used car sales, Starbucks coffee, supermarket products, third world poverty to poker.
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Host Tom Fudge and David Coddon, assistant arts editor for the
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Host Tom Fudge speaks to surfing legend Mike Doyle about his new book
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Some say it will only be a few decades before world supplies of oil are so depleted that it will become too expensive to use for transportation or generating power.
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For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom threw his support behind San Diego's Measure D Thursday. -
Construction began Thursday near Poway on the first leg of a 10,000-mile-long broadband network.
- San Diego’s abandoned California Theatre faces deadline to sell or demolish
- Communities respond to ICE arrests near San Diego schools
- The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?
- San Diego Zoo mural honors 3 beloved animals lost in 1 week
- Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art