Michelle Loxton
Podcast and Digital Content ProducerMichelle Loxton joined KCLU in June 2021 as Podcast and Digital Content Producer.
Michelle oversees digital products at KCLU and is the host and creator of the station's first award-winning podcast The One Oh One.
The very first episode of The One Oh One (an episode about the crisis of fentanyl in Ventura County) won first place at 64th annual L.A. Press Club awards. An episode on the state of youth mental health received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award. And at the 73rd annual Golden Mikes Awards The One Oh One podcast won 'Best Podcast' and 'Best Podcast Feature'.
Michelle has worked in talk and news radio for more than a decade. Before joining KCLU, she worked in public radio as a reporter and host at KAZU (NPR for the Monterey Bay area). At KAZU she was part of the news team that won a National Edward R. Murrow award for the continued coverage of the four major wildfires that ravaged the Central Coast in 2020. Her reporting also extensively covered the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Central Coast community.
Before moving to California, Michelle worked in Dubai at the Arabian Radio Network for almost five years. There she took on a variety of roles including reporter, producer, newscaster and host. She covered a wide variety of topics from breaking news (the tragic Emirates and FlyDubai plane crashes) to lifestyle events (she was the main correspondent for the Dubai International Film Festival).
Michelle's radio career started in her home country of South Africa where she worked at news radio station CapeTalk as a producer and in community radio as a host and producer.
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When police searched a home in Mussel Shoals about twenty years ago they found dozens of tapes and photos of drugged women being sexually assaulted. Many victims didn’t know what had happened to them.In this episode of The One Oh One podcast – part of a two part series – we revisit one of Ventura County’s most notorious crimes and learn where the story picks up today.These are the crimes of Andrew Luster. -
When police searched a home in Mussel Shoals about twenty years ago they found dozens of tapes and photos of drugged women being sexually assaulted. Many victims didn’t know what had happened to them.In this episode of The One Oh One podcast – part of a two part series – we revisit one of Ventura County’s most notorious crimes and learn where the story picks up today.These are the crimes of Andrew Luster.
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It’s a story that involves videotapes of the crimes; a wealthy criminal on the run; a reality TV bounty hunter. It all happened twenty years ago but that’s not where it ends – we pick up the story where it stands today.
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Twenty years ago this month a rocket blasted off into space with an invention on board that would go on to transform access to space. That invention, called the CubeSat, was a tiny satellite the shape and size of a square tissue box.It became so popular that last year it was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
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The tiny satellite, the shape and size of a square tissue box, went on to transform access to space by making it cheaper and easier to get into orbit.
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In the decades to come the share of elderly people in Ventura County is going to expand tremendously. At the same time caregivers for this population are projected to decrease significantly.What’s been done about this?
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As the share of elderly people balloons in Ventura County, the amount of people to care for them is set to decrease dramatically. A resource rich piece on what’s being done to help.
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Ventura County’s share of elderly residents is predicted to expand tremendously over the next few decades – quadrupling from around 18,000 today to 72,000 by 2060.
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Ventura County’s share of elderly residents is predicted to quadruple over the next few decades while the amount of people to care for these seniors is predicted to decrease dramatically.In this episode of The One Oh One we look at what’s been called the silver tsunami and its consequences. (Part 1 of a two-part series).
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Some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet can be found on the underwater structures of oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. Could Platform Holly be completely dismantled or turned into the first platform reef off of California?
