Ed Joyce Breaking News Editor/ Reporter
Ed Joyce is the Breaking News Reporter and Editor for KPCC. Before joining the station, Ed covered the environment beat for six-years at KPBS-FM/TV in San Diego.
Prior to his time at KPBS, Joyce was an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. His extensive background in news includes stints as a newspaper, radio, web and TV journalist. The positions include: reporter, anchor, editor, columnist, talk show host, writer and photographer. His career started as a boy delivering the Sunday L.A. Times. He later had a paper route delivering the Evening Star-News.
Along the way, Ed has had stints as a telephone operator and mail carrier. He even wrote a column and edited a weekly newspaper in the Caribbean. He's also been a DJ, a high school and college educator and has worked in public relations.
Joyce has won many awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, The Associated Press and other organizations for his TV and radio writing, producing, anchoring, editing and reporting.
Born in Los Angeles County, Joyce graduated with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington, where he studied broadcast journalism, TV-radio production and sociology.
Stories by Ed Joyce
US factory output rises for 2nd straight month
U.S. factory production rose in December for the second straight month, buoyed by more output of autos, electronics and business equipment.
Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets in Japan
Japan's two biggest airlines grounded all their Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks Wednesday after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.
Director Kathryn Bigelow defends torture scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty"
Director Kathryn Bigelow is defending torture scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty," saying the military hunt for Osama bin Laden wasn't free of moral consequences.
US consumer prices unchanged in December
Lower gas costs offset more expensive food and higher rents to keep a measure of U.S. consumer prices flat last month.
Another day, another big rig accident on I-5 in LA
All lanes of northbound Interstate-5 at Atlantic Boulevard reopened Wednesday morning at Commerce after three of four were closed due to a truck fire, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Orange County spending $3.2 million to create Fullerton homeless shelter
The Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to spend $3.2 million to acquire a closed Linder's Furniture site in Fullerton to convert into a year-round homeless shelter.
Southern CA home prices rose sharply in December
A research firm said Southern California home prices rose sharply last month as buyers snapped up pricier properties along the coast.
UPDATE: I-5 now open in LA after 4 hour closure due to big-rig crash
A big-rig slammed into an Interstate 5 center divider and caught fire, closing the freeway in both directions near Downtown Los Angeles. It has reopened after a four-hour closure.
LA DJ Jimmy O'Neill dead at 73, hosted TV's 'Shindig!'
Jimmy O'Neill, who was barely out of his teens when he became Los Angeles' top-rated radio deejay and only 24 when he became a national celebrity as host of "Shindig!," died in L.A. at age 73.
US consumers increased their spending at retail businesses in December
U.S. consumers increased their spending at retail businesses in December, buying more autos, furniture and clothing despite fiscal cliff worries.
Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima dies at 80
Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director known for internationally acclaimed films "Empire of Passion" and "In the Realm of the Senses," has died of pneumonia. He was 80.
Falling food and gas costs lead to lower US wholesale prices
Falling prices for food and gas pushed down U.S. wholesale prices last month for the third month in a row, the latest evidence inflation is tame.
LA County calls for action to tackle prescription drug abuse
The L.A. County Department of Public Health calls for steps to improve training, tracking, and disposal of prescription drugs to counter abuse problem.
CA agency faults Edison, others for 2011 windstorm power outages
The California Public Utilities Commission issued a final report on the 2011 windstorms and related power outages. Read the complete report, which faults Southern California Edison.
Environmental groups, NRC chair to meet on San Onofre nuclear plant
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Allison Macfarlane meets Monday in Orange County with several environmental groups about the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant.
