The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
About the Staff:
Mark Mericle is KPFA News Co-Director and Anchor/Producer for the Pacifica Evening News. Mark came to KPFA in 1981 after four years as News Director and four as Station Manager at WYSO-FM, the community and public station for the Dayton area in southwest Ohio. Before that he was publisher of an underground newspaper, The Minority Report, and an organizer in the antiwar movement. At KPFA News he has anchored the Evening News and taught the news training class for news volunteers and interns.
Christopher Martínez is KPFA’s State Capitol Correspondent. Christopher has covered the State Capitol since 2003. Before that, he worked in health policy for community clinics serving low income communities of color for a decade. Christopher also worked for tenants groups in San Francisco and for a number of anti war and anti intervention groups during the period of the Central American wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Vic Bedoian reports from Central California primarily on issues involving natural resources and environmental justice. Vic ran his family farm before becoming General Manager of KFCF Radio from 1996-2008. Vic graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Physics and was a producer at KPFA in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Christina Aanestad is KPFA co news-director. Christina is a print journalist and radio producer, reporter and anchor. Her work has aired on Pacifica Radio, Free Speech Radio News, Radio Netherlands, National Native News, NPR and other programs. A Northern California native, she loves traveling between the Bay Area where she anchors news at KPFA, and the redwoods in Humboldt County where she produces the evening news at KMUD. Christina is also the assistant producer of Radio Curious and teaches fashion journalism at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.