KCBS Afternoon News: July 8, 2022 by KCBS Radio

Summer. Typically “slow news” season.

But, journalists have been reminded many times over the past challenging few years that there is no guarantee of a slow news day – let alone a “slow news” season.

And, of course, that’s not what we want. We crave big stories, impactful headlines – and news scoops.

Which is exactly what we had on Friday July 8, 2022.

KCBS political Doug Sovern had a local scoop of national interest. On the tightest of deadlines, we sourced, discussed, reviewed and prepared to break the story at the start of our 2 pm newscast. The exclusive: a Bay Area OB-GYN was going public with her plan for a “boat-based” health clinic in the Gulf of Mexico to provide abortions and other reproductive health care services in federal waters near states where abortions had been banned or limited.

Anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart, two highly engaged newsroom leaders, skillfully collaborated with Doug on execution of our top story. Additional and thoughtful conversations took place between Patti, Bret and their news producers and editors about the rest of the newscast – which included:

- Kathy Novak covering the swearing in of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins

- Traffic with Kim Vestal

- Sports with Kevin Radich

- An insightful interview with Mark Murrow, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, exploring whether there really is a “tech exodus” from the Bay Area

- A fire in the region’s “South Bay”

- Jason Brooks covering financial news, including developments in the Elon Musk/Twitter story

- David Welch covering a new condominium complex on picturesque Treasure Island

- Melissa Culross covering continued COVID concerns for the immunocompromised

- Keith Menconi takes us inside the historic Winchester Mystery Mansion