Kenneth Burns is an award-winning journalist who has been covering New Jersey for WHYY News since 2020, focusing on the issues that shape communities across the state. He joined the station in 2018 as the Sunday morning host. His reporting has been featured on NPR and PRX’s “The World.”
Before coming to WHYY, Burns covered city government and urban affairs for WYPR in Baltimore. His coverage of the Freddie Gray police trials earned the station its first National Headliner Award in 2017.
Prior to entering the world of public media, Burns was an afternoon news anchor for WNAV in Annapolis, Maryland, where he also covered the Maryland General Assembly and hosted two public affairs shows.
Other career stops included WBAL Radio in Baltimore and NAVTEQ Traffic in Washington, D.C. His professional journalism career began shortly after high school at WTOP, the all-news radio station in Washington, D.C., first as an intern, then as a news assistant.
A native of the Maryland suburbs in the D.C. area, affectionately known as “The DMV,” Burns now calls Central Jersey his home, alonside his wife. He is a graduate of Towson University and Anne Arundel Community College.
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