Kyla Calvert
Education ReporterKyla Calvert is the education reporter forKPBS, producing multimedia content for radio, television and the Web. Kyla began producing web content while working in marketing in San Francisco. She decided to change careers and received a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in digital media from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2009. While in school she freelanced for City Hall and The Capitol newspapers covering New York City and state politics and policy. After completing her degree, she worked as a fellow for Hearst Newspapers on “Dead By Mistake” a nationwide investigative project about medical error. The project received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Kyla moved to San Diego from Beaufort County, South Carolina where she covered county government for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.
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Ukraine has fired six ATACMS into Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said. If confirmed, it would mark the first attack using the U.S.-made long-range missiles in 1,000 days of war. -
In a growing online group, dozens of photography enthusiasts are capturing a vibrant portrait of the California borderlands. -
On November 19, the United Nations wants toilets to be top of mind — and they don't mean for the Property Brothers on a bathroom reno episode. Here's why toilets get their own international day. -
Regulators have slowed the pace of Starship launches over environmental concerns, but that may be about to change. -
Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history. -
A Pennsylvania church just blocks from where then-candidate Donald Trump's would-be assassin lived created a sermon series on the Golden Rule to try to bridge political divisions in its congregation.
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