Andrew Phelps

Andrew Phelps is a journalist in San Diego.

He is a reporter and news anchor for KPBS, a National Public Radio member station, and a regular contributor to NPR News and the Marketplace programs. Download a resume (PDF) or listen to audio samples at andrewphelps.com/reel.

Andrew produced extensive local and national reporting on the Southern California wildfires of October 2007. KPBS served 80 hours of live, rolling coverage, and Andrew took the helm as a newscaster and then a reporter in the field. The coverage was featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and in July 2008, the KPBS News team received a national prize for its coverage from the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated.

Andrew also put his entrepreneurial passion to work as the founding Fellow of the Jacobs Project for Reporting Excellence, a multimedia training program for professional journalists, where he helped foster the convergence of radio, TV, and new media. He built a muti-platform, high-tech newsroom. He helped launch the station's first news blog and shaped the editorial criteria for all five of the station's blogs. In 2008, Andrew helped secure funding to expand the project, including the addition of three new positions.

Before KPBS, Andrew reported for the North County Times and wrote Behind the Desk, a weekly profile series about standout executives in the San Diego area. Andrew has received numerous honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, the San Diego Press Club, and the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.

Andrew graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. degree in political science, and with A.A. degrees in both journalism and liberal arts from Palomar College.

Andrew served as news editor and then editor in chief of The Telescope, Palomar?s award-winning, weekly newspaper, and received the program's award for Distinguished Journalist of the Year in 2004.

Andrew is also a former intern in the newsrooms of both KPBS and FOX6 News.

Andrew was briefly employed by Starbucks Coffee, a corporation he has blogged about frequently. Andrew is also an occasional Web designer and freelance computer consultant, a professional hobby dating back to the 1990s.

A native San Diegan, Andrew grew up in North County and lives in South Park. San Diego Blog once described Andrew as "a digital raconteur, bon vivant, and man about town." He loves photography, travel, and bold coffee, among other delights.

Andrew's mother, Nancy Ballantine, lives in Evanston, Illinois, and his brother, David, lives in Boulder, Colorado. His father, Harold (Rich), died in September 2004.

andrewphelps.com was born in October 2000.