{"id":506271,"date":"2026-10-24T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506271\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:40:11","slug":"kvpr-welcomes-veteran-fresno-journalist-marek-warszawski-to-the-public-radio-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506271\/","title":{"rendered":"KVPR welcomes veteran Fresno journalist Marek Warszawski to the public radio airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s a familiar name to many local readers and he\u2019s now on KVPR. For nearly 28 years, Marek Warszawski<\/a> was a fixture at The Fresno Bee. While there, he covered everything from sports to the environment, before spending the last eight years as metro columnist.<\/p>\n

Now Warszawski is bringing his deep insights and journalism experience to the public radio airwaves in a new role as senior correspondent for KVPR. From covering the 2026 election to debates over the future of the San Joaquin River, Warszawski\u2019s loyal readers will find his KVPR coverage familiar, while also fresh and engaging, both audio on KVPR and in written form at KVPR.org.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m covering a lot of the same topics that I covered at the Fresno Bee, but I’m covering them in a new way. I’m learning a new form of journalism, audio journalism, using different elements to tell a story,\u201d Warszawski said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut really what I found out is it’s still telling a story. It excites me because I have something new to learn, but in some ways it’s very familiar, because it’s what I’ve done throughout my career.\u201d
You\u2019ll find Warszawski\u2019s reporting in KVPR\u2019s local newscasts, within shows like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, on the Central Valley Daily podcast and at KVPR.org.<\/p>\n

While he might be a new voice behind the microphone, he has a strong reputation as one of the Valley\u2019s top journalists. \u201cMarek is someone local residents trust and respect, and we\u2019re thrilled to have a veteran reporter like him on the KVPR team,\u201d said KVPR President and General Manager Joe Moore.<\/p>\n

“It’s still telling a story. It [moving to public radio] excites me because I have something new to learn, but in some ways it’s very familiar, because it’s what I’ve done throughout my career.” – Marek Warszawski<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows local politics, local issues, and local stories better than almost anyone in the region. He brings an enthusiasm for imparting accurate, reliable information to the public and in crafting a compelling story. We\u2019re excited that he is now bringing his insights and deep reporting to the KVPR airwaves,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

Warszawski also knows how to find a good story. \u201cThere’s just a buzz that goes off in your head when you find out something and then the more you find out, the more you get excited about it,\u201d Warszawski said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it can be an interview, someone you talk to that makes you think about an issue or a topic that you haven’t thought of before. [And then] a light bulb or electricity goes off in your head and you say, \u2018Wow, I didn’t know that. This is interesting. I can make that interesting.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Warszawski grew up in the Bay Area community of Los Altos, and first moved to Fresno in 1997. He said the Valley\u2019s proximity to the Sierra Nevada and outdoor recreation activities were a big draw. \u201cI had actually been familiar with our area even before I moved here, because when I was a teenager, I worked at Camp Oljato, which is a Boy Scout camp up at Huntington Lake. And I was so I was familiar with the mountain areas of Fresno County,\u201d Warszawski said.<\/p>\n

That interest in the outdoors led him to start a new beat at the Bee in the 2000s, covering the region\u2019s national parks and forests, and various outdoor activities. \u201cI covered everything from rock climbing in Yosemite to people paragliding over the Sierra and river rafting, hiking, all those things that make our region kind of unique and wonderful,\u201d Warszawski said.<\/p>\n

“I covered everything from rock climbing in Yosemite to people paragliding over the Sierra and river rafting, hiking, all those things that make our region kind of unique and wonderful.” – Marek Warszawski<\/p>\n

His interest in the outdoors also led him to pursue coverage of an outdoor story closer to the Valley\u2019s urban areas: the San Joaquin River. \u201cI noticed that unlike a lot of other cities that are situated along major rivers, Fresno didn’t have access to its river. There weren’t trails and parks along the river, places where people could walk and enjoy and stroll and kind of just take in nature or ride their bikes. There was very little public access and I started kind of questioning why that was.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he began at the Bee in the late 1990s, Warszawski originally covered sports. He reported on the NFL\u2019s San Francisco 49ers during the Steve Young-era, and later Fresno State football during the era of David and Derek Carr. His career then took a turn into outdoors coverage before being an enterprise reporter and metro columnist.<\/p>\n

Warszawski said while he may be new to public radio, telling a compelling story and imparting good information to the public is the most rewarding part of his job.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting feedback from those readers or listeners telling you, \u2018Thank you for what you do. You’ve informed me, you’ve enlightened me, you’ve entertained me, and you’ve made me feel something about an issue that I didn’t know before.\u2019 So just feeling that connection is really the most important part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s a familiar name to many local readers and he\u2019s now on KVPR. For nearly 28 years, Marek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-506271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}