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Peggy Pico
Peggy Pico, is an American broadcast journalist, public speaker and contributing web and magazine author. She is a KPBS TV news anchor and interview host at the public broadcasting station and NPR affiliate in San Diego, CA, where she hosts a nightly newscast focused on San Diego politics and in-depth news analysis.

Prior, she was a news correspondent for NBC-owned and operated stations in San Diego and San Francisco from 2003 to 2010, where her reports aired regularly on MSNBC and NBC affiliates throughout the United States. Before joining KPBS and NBC,  Peggy Pico was an award-winning reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles, KTVT in Dallas and reporter and anchor for KOLD in Tucson.

In her first career, Peggy Pico worked as a Registered Nurse in Los Angeles and in Boston, making the transition by becoming a weekday medical reporter for KOLD and weekend news anchor.

In 2011, Peggy was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. During her chemotherapy treatment and without any hair she reported on TV, radio and web about the cancer research and developments garnering her a first-place award from the Society of Professional Journalist in  San Diego.