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 AwardsThe One Oh Onepodcast 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 coverageof 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 talk/news radio station CapeTalk as a producer and at jazz and classical station Fine Music Radio as a host and producer.
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It’s been twenty years since the opening of Ventura County’s main juvenile detention facility. Since then the approach to incarcerating children in California has changed significantly. -
Over the last twenty years there’s been a shift in approach to incarcerating children in California. These days, the overarching goal is to reduce reliance on incarceration.That’s reflected with a detention facility in Ventura County that was originally built for around 400 young detainees but today houses only around 80.In this episode of The One Oh One, how new thinking on juvenile detention is affecting local facilities and youth.
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Many blame a combination of factors – particularly the types of industry – like a strategic port, warehouses, power plants and the many diesel trucks and ships that those industries bring in. Many of these polluting industries are critical parts of the local economy. -
According to state data, the neighboring cities of Oxnard and Port Hueneme have some of the very worst air quality in California.In this episode of The One Oh One, we look at the sources of that pollution and what’s being done about it.
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Illegal workers contribute over $9 billion annually to the local economy. They also personally pay over $2 billion in state and federal taxes every year. -
How reliant are Ventura and Santa Barbara counties on the economic contributions of local undocumented immigrants?In this episode of The One Oh One, a look at how illegal workers contribute over $9 billion annually to the local economy and personally pay over $2 billion in state and federal taxes every year.
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Shipwrecks have fascinated many – it’s the long lost treasures they possibly hold; the filling in of gaps in history books they reveal; or the closure their discovery brings to descendants. -
A new marine sanctuary off of California's Central Coast could aid in the discovery of over 140 shipwrecks
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On January 9, 2018, in the middle of the night, a massive debris flow plowed through Montecito. Flood water filled with mud, boulders, trees destroyed homes and took lives. -
On January 9, 2018, in the middle of the night, a massive debris flow plowed through Montecito. Flood water filled with mud, boulders, trees destroyed homes and took lives.
