Doug McKnight
Senior Adviser, Reporter and HostDoug joined KAZU in 2004 as Development Director overseeing fundraising and grants. He was promoted to General Manager in 2009 and is currently retired and working part time in membership fundraising and news reporting at KAZU.
Prior to joining KAZU, Doug worked in television news in Detroit, San Francisco, San Jose and Monterey and served briefly as General Manager at channel 46. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Broadcast Communications from Michigan State University and a MBA from St. Mary’s College. Doug was President of the Northern California News Directors Association for two years and served on its board for 10 years. He also served on the board of the California First Amendment Coalition and the Jane Pauley Task Force on Journalism Education.
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For more than 20 years, the African American Theater Arts Troupe at UC Santa Cruz has provided a place for students of color to find a sense of belonging through performing arts.
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Businesses are finding new ways to attract and keep employees, as workers rethink how and where they work, and whether they want a 9-to-5 office job at all.
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Dr. Eduardo Ochoa will step down on July 31, after a decade as President of CSU Monterey Bay. In an interview with KAZU News, Ochoa discussed challenges and accomplishments of the last 10 years, and the importance of diversity on campus.
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Nazir, his wife Samra, and their two children spent their first Fourth of July holiday in America this year. They escaped Afghanistan on that chaotic day last August, as the last U.S. troops withdrew and the Taliban took over. Their journey to the Monterey Peninsula was made possible by the kindness of strangers
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Monterey Bay’s new professional soccer team is set to play its first home game May 7. The Monterey Bay Football Club, also known as the Union, is using a stadium built by the U.S. Army 70 years ago that sits at the entrance of what is now CSU Monterey Bay. The stadium was key to bringing professional soccer to the Monterey Peninsula.
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The Monterey Conference Center is still struggling to get back to where it was before the pandemic. As variant after variant sweeps across the world, the City of Monterey is trying to figure out the role of a 40,000 square-foot conference center in an increasingly virtual world.
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A conversation with oceanographer Gary Griggs about the risk tsunamis pose to the Monterey Bay, and what do when the next one strikes.
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Using images captured from drones equipped with high-resolution cameras, researchers at Elkhorn Slough are piecing together a picture of how humans have shaped the land over the last century, and how best to restore it.
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An important element in the nation’s cyber defense is located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. The Center for Cyber Warfare conducts research and educates information warfare officers and military electrical and computer engineers to combat cyber attacks.
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California State University Monterey Bay students are back on campus after 17 months of remote learning. But the back-to-school excitement is tempered. Since move-in day, 11 individuals on campus have tested positive for COVID-19.