She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns.
Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. "While these decisions are difficult,” he wrote, “they are necessary to ensure we operate our business with an optimum allocation of resources and maintain the long-term health of our company."Īlison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. U-T San Diego CEO, John Lynch, wrote in a memo to staff that the restructuring is a result of a "significant decline" in subscriptions to the North County Times and The Californian. Scott said readers used to daily coverage of their city are now seeing just two or three stories a week. Moore said coverage of Escondido city council meetings, which used to be published the following day, is now broken into short stories spread out over the week, with less coverage overall. David Garrick, who formerly covered Escondido, is now responsible for also covering the cities of San Marcos and Carlsbad. Oceanside and Vista will now share one reporter. Ray Huard, the U-T San Diego reporter who covered Oceanside, is among more than two dozen U-T employees laid off in recent days. “We find things out after they’ve happened.” Nadine Scott, an involved citizen of Oceanside, said coverage of the third largest city in the county has been shrinking for some time.
There are nine cities in North County, each with their own government, and 18 cities in San Diego County. Moore questioned how well city government can work if citizens are not aware of their activities. “What’s happening is that the resources the papers can allocate to covering local city government, it keeps getting reduced and reduced to the point where I wonder whether even the people who take the papers will be able to know what’s happening in their city government.“
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