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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Company sales and acquisitions often make the news, but only when they involved tens of millions or billions of dollars. What if you want to buy a corner coffee shop, not Time Warner? In San Diego, yo
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Host Tom Fudge talks with KPBS film critic Beth Accomando and film and history professor Robert Brent Toplin about the new film United 93 and it's approach to recent history.
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Host Tom Fudge talks with Elaina Newport, a performer and co-founder of the popular political satire show The Capital Steps.
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Take your kids surfing, live a reasonable distance from the beach, and eat healthy seafood. According to David Helvarg these are just three of the fifty things you can do to save the ocean. Tom Fudge
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Host Tom Fudge speaks to Laura Strickler, a reporter for Capitol Hill News Connection about the boycott for immigrant rights, rising gas prices, and the recent shake-up in the White House staff.
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Could we be watching the Chula Vista Chargers come 2008? Yesterday San Diego City Council approved amending the Chargers lease. Tom Fudge finds out what this means for San Diego and surrounding commun
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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 to pay $875K to man shot with police bean bag rounds and bitten by K-9
- Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people, dies after campus shooting
- San Diego Supervisors unanimously deny Cottonwood Sand Mine developer's appeal
- VA Secretary defends staff reductions, anti-union moves at agency during San Diego visit
- San Diego class-action suit says ICE courthouse arrests are illegal