News and Events

KQED sponsors and hosts informational, educational and entertaining events around northern California. Click here to check out the events calendar on kqed.org.

KQED Joins SFMOMA for the Museum’s Countdown Celebration

KQED provides broadcasts, live video stream and artist and makers demonstrations as part of the four-day festivities kicking off May 30. KQED, the public media organization that serves Northern California, is proud to partner with SFMOMA for the museum’s Countdown Celebration. KQED will be celebrating along with SFMOMA for four festive days kicking off the [...]

May 21, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

KQED and CIR Collaborations Receive Two 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Awards

Heat and Harvest, which explored the impact of climate change on California’s agriculture industry, wins in the documentary category. Suburban Junkies, which followed three young drug addicts in Orange County, CA, is honored as best audio slideshow. KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)’s ongoing reporting partnership was just recognized with two national 2012 [...]

Apr 24, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

RTDNA honors KQED News With Six 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards

Murrow Awards recognize excellence in broadcast journalism and online news services. The selected cross-platform stories were featured on The California Report,  KQED News and KQEDnews.org, and will be in consideration for national awards. KQEDnews.org was selected as best news website. KQED, the public media organization that serves Northern California, was honored by the Radio Television [...]

Apr 19, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

What’s in Your Next Meal?

Are the benefits of genetically engineered food worth the risks? New QUEST Television Special Premieres Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30pm on KQED 9. KQED Contact: Sevda Eris, 415-553-2835, seris@kqed.org San Francisco, CA – QUEST Northern California, KQED’s award-winning multimedia science series, investigates genetically engineered crops in a half-hour documentary special, Next Meal: Engineering Food, on Wednesday, May [...]

Apr 11, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Turn to KQED for the Historic Supreme Court Hearings on Prop. 8 and DOMA

Scott Shafer reports from Washington, D.C., all next week for KQED Public Radio’s The California Report. KQED 9’s This Week Northern California on March 22 is dedicated to the hearings and features interview with Gavin Newsom. KQED News offers context and historical perspective on the hearings. KQED, the public media organization that serves Northern California, [...]

Mar 21, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

KQED and East Bay Regional Park District Develop New River Delta Multi-touch E-Book

KQED leads public media innovation in science education with a second book collaboration using Apple’s iBooks Author App EBRPD Contact: Emily Hopkins, 510-544-2217. ehopkins@ebparks.org KQED Contact: Sevda Eris, 415-553-2835, seris@kqed.org   San Francisco, CA – KQED and the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) have pooled their rich multimedia resources to create River Delta, a visually absorbing, [...]

Mar 19, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Michael Englehaupt Named as New Chief Technology Officer for KQED

Michael Englehaupt has been named KQED’s new Chief Technology Officer. Englehaupt will be a chief architect as KQED moves to increase regionally-focused content and distribution across multiple platforms, including mobile, tablet, Internet and broadcast. Englehaupt will oversee KQED’s combined technical areas of television and radio engineering, television operations, IT and enterprise systems, and the engineering [...]

Mar 11, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Celebrate Read Across America with KQED and the Cat in the Hat!

Family-friendly events planned in San Francisco and San Mateo. KQED to air two back-to-back premieres on Friday, March 1, of the acclaimed PBS KIDS series, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Theodor Seuss Geisel would have turned 109 on March 2 this year. On the school day closest to the beloved [...]

Feb 22, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

A Church Divided Investigates Homosexuality and Christian Doctrine

KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting partnership includes television and radio features. Is homosexuality a sin? This question is at the core of some of the most heated debates in Christian communities today. As the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to make a decision about the future of same-sex marriage, KQED and the Center [...]

Feb 07, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

2012 – A Year of Prestigious Awards for KQED’s QUEST Multimedia Science Series

Contact: Sevda Eris, 415-553-2835, seris@kqed.org San Francisco, CA — QUEST, KQED’s multimedia science series, won several prestigious science reporting awards in 2012. Most noteworthy, on November 14, QUEST won an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Kavli Journalism Award for the second year in a row.  The winning television segment, “Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct: Big [...]

Jan 16, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post