P. Kenneth Burns

Kenneth Burns is WHYY’s South Jersey Reporter. He joined the station in 2018 as an anchor.  He also contributed stories and won a 2020 Keystone Media Award for one of them.

Prior to WHYY, he covered city government and urban issues for WYPR in Baltimore; his first stop in public media. His coverage of the Freddie Gray police trials won a 2017 National Headliner Award. Burns began his career shortly after high school as an intern and later news assistant at WTOP in Washington, D.C. He would go on to work for several commercial broadcasting outlets as a reporter, anchor and producer in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metro areas.

The native Marylander and recently adopted New Jerseyan is a graduate of Towson University and Anne Arundel Community College.

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