Kerry Klein
Associate Editor and ReporterKerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
After growing up near Boston, Kerry graduated from McGill University with a B.S. in geology. When she began working as an exploration geologist and geothermal energy analyst, radio reporting was a distant and unlikely future. But she found new significance in media while hosting a talk show about science at a Montreal public radio station and later while producing a podcast for Science Magazine. She later returned to school to study science journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
When she’s not in front of a computer or microphone, Kerry can be found biking to the rock climbing gym, practicing her violin, sewing unnecessary but very cute articles of clothing, or wandering the Sierra foothills with her husband and daughter.
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A bizarre video from Fresno, California, captured a weather phenomenon more common than you might think.
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UCSF Health and Adventist Health have developed a potential plan to purchase the shuttered Madera Community Hospital as a separate deal currently makes its way through court.
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A new report from Politico explains Senate contenders are likely making the calculation that they can get enough votes without needing to weigh in on such a divisive subject.
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California's Creek Fire was contained on Dec. 24, 2020, after destroying nearly 400,000 acres and hundreds of homes in the Sierra Nevada.
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While in Congress, Kevin McCarthy helped direct a national spotlight toward the fungal disease.
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In a unanimous vote on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, the Madera Community Hospital board of trustees selected American Advanced Management, Inc., as its potential new owner.
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“Water Politics,” a new book by Fresno State political science professor Tom Holyoke, explores the competing pressures that have resulted in a complicated, convoluted water policy that is constantly being disputed.
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A San Joaquin Valley dairy farmer recently earned a prestigious national award that only four other farmers in the state have won in the last 25 years.
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After failed deals with Trinity Health and Adventist Health to reopen Madera Community Hospital, two more companies are eyeing the facility.
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KVPR speaks with independent journalist Susie Cagle about her recent investigation into the construction of two state prisons on the edge of California’s Tulare Lake.