P. Kenneth Burns is an award-winning public media journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering government, policy, and communities. Currently, he covers New Jersey for WHYY, where his reporting is featured nationally on NPR, and is also published in the Philadelphia Tribune. He joined WHYY in 2018 as a Sunday morning host and weekday fill-in before transitioning full-time to reporting in 2020.
Committed to civic storytelling and accountability journalism, Kenneth’s work connects audiences with the decisions and events that directly impact their lives. He has worked in reporting, anchoring, and producing roles across the Washington and Baltimore regions before coming to Philadelphia.
As metro reporter at WYPR in Baltimore, Kenneth’s reporting on the Freddie Gray police trials helped earn the station its first National Headliner Award for breaking news and continuous coverage.
Kenneth also held roles with WBAL, WGMD, WNAV, NAVTEQ Traffic, Radio America, and Salem Communications (now Salem Media Group.) He began his journalism career shortly after high school as an intern, and later news assistant, at WTOP, Washington, D.C.’s all-news radio station
A member of NABJ, NABJ-Philadelphia, SPJ, the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists, IRE, and the Public Media Journalists Association, the native of D.C.’s Maryland suburbs now makes his home in Central New Jersey with his wife and their child. He is a graduate of Towson University and Anne Arundel Community College, and is currently working on his master’s degree through Southeastern University.
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