California Connected Newsroom

California Connected’s newsroom staff has been struck with a rare case of senioritis. This condition is found in television production crews at about the mid-season point. The only known cure is a 2-week break.
Although we are gone, California Connected continues to air in most markets. Check local listings for air times.
We will return after Labor […]

As the California Connected crew works month after month in KCET’s climate controlled office space, we lose touch with the fact that it’s summertime. The only real sign has been the presence of our summer interns.
We had some great ones this year who helped out with everything: research, outreach, story ideas and website updates. We […]

Want to turn on your laptop in the street, library, cafe or at home, and surf the Internet free of charge?
Google might just answer your prayers. Reuters reports that it has made a free wireless network available to the 72,000 residents of Mountain View, California, where the company is headquartered. Anyone using a Wi-Fi […]

Producer Rick Wilkinson has been on assignment throughout the world but never before had he been to Yosemite National Park.

Rick says he approaches every location with his “game eyes” on, looking for ways to tell a visual story. Eventually, he looked at Yosemite with different eyes. “As the story progresses and we get what we […]

Producer Mimi Kent goes north to visit Greg Papadopoulos.
A self-proclaimed technophobe, I knew little about open source software before researching the interview with Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems. Jonathan Schwartz had just been appointed the President of Sun the week we decided to track down a person to talk eloquently about the open […]

When we send Producer Angela Shelley out to shoot a story, we know two things for sure. She’s going to make us cry and she’s going to bring back a lot of tape.
Angela’s first story of the season, “Family Matters,” airs this Friday. It’s about an intergenerational facility in Escondido that pairs […]