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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Host Tom Fudge speaks to Kari Cornicelli with Sharp Grossmont Hospital about Proposition G, the bond measure to complete the hospital's Emergency and Critical Care Center, improvements that will be ma
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Some adopted children are driven to seek out their birth parents while others are just as committed to leave that in the past. What rights do adopted children have to learn about their birth parents,
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Host Tom Fudge speaks with Author Josh Tickell about his new book "Biodiesel America." Tickell is one of the nation's leading experts on biodiesel fuel, and his first book "From the Fryer to the Fuel
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What is it like to be 100 years old? There are about 70,000 centenarians living in the United States - and California is home to most of the centenarians living in the country. Tom Fudge speaks with t
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What happens when internet service providers decide to start giving certain websites special treatment based that website's ability to pay? Net neutrality is gone. Host Tom Fudge talks with Declan M
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Host Tom Fudge speaks to NPR's Scott Horsley about the global oil supply, and the record profits at the world's largest oil companies. Economics Professor Peter Navarro also talks about whether oil a
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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 is building a lot of homes in its most walkable neighborhoods
- City Council clears way for tiered parking rates at San Diego Zoo
- San Diego to pay $875K to man shot with police bean bag rounds and bitten by K-9
- Oceanside city council approves new tenant protections, rejects rent control
- San Diego class-action suit says ICE courthouse arrests are illegal