Branching Out with The Acorn Newspapers

Acorn Newspapers managing editor John Loesing joins the podcast to help break down the impact of redistricting and discuss some of the races the staff will be watching closely.

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Branching Out’s David Lopez shares his COVID experience with Acorn reporter Scott Steepleton and host Kyle Jorrey. Steepleton and Jorrey also discuss surging cases, local testing chaos and how local …

Melissa Bumstead of Parents vs Santa Susana Field Lab and Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility join host Kyle Jorrey to discuss a new documentary they are featured in,  "In the Dar…

Host David Lopez and Acorn sports editor Eliav Appelbaum revisit some of 2021’s best local sports moments, from prep to the Olympic Games. 

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YEAR IN REVIEW

The Branching Out team revisits their favorite, most memorable and most surprising episodes and guests from the past year. Plus, an homage to some of the funniest moments provided by fo…

Branching Out legal analyst James Bozajian breaks down developments in two major local murder cases: Rebecca Grossman and Anthony Rauda. Plus, the former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney b…

Thousand Oaks Acorn editor and Branching Out host Kyle Jorrey and The Acorn reporter Scott Steepleton discuss Southern California Edison's PSPS Thanksgiving Day blackout that left 15,000 homes in Ven…

Kyle is joined by Helen Cox, sustainability division manager for the City of Thousand Oaks, to discuss the upcoming changes to how recycling/trash pickup is done throughout the state.  Plus, she offe…

Acorn reporter Dawn Megli sits down with Beverly Salazar Folkes, a Chumash and Tataviam elder and chairperson on the board of the Chumash Indian Museum in Thousand Oaks, to learn about local indigeno…

Thousand Oaks Acorn editor and Branching Out host Kyle Jorrey gets to know Scott Steepleton, The Acorn’s newest reporter covering Agoura Hills, Oak Park and Calabasas. Scott shares how the journalism…

On Nov. 7, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, killing 12 in the deadliest mass shooting in Ventura County history. Thousand Oaks Acorn reporter Dawn Megli has …

Branching Out host and Thousand Oaks Acorn editor Kyle Jorrey is joined by Simi Valley reporter Melissa Simon to discuss a recently published independent study looking at how the Woolsey fire might h…

Thousand Oaks Acorn reporter Dawn Megli sits down with Mark McLaughlin, superintendent of Conejo Valley Unified School District, to talk about what it’s like to helm one of the largest school distric…

Amanda Longan, a goalie for the US women’s national water polo team, stops by to share her memories of winning gold in the 2020 Tokyo Games. A graduate of Oaks Christian High School and USC, the Moor…

Recorded in front of a live audience Oct. 7, 2021, at Oak & Iron, Branching Out host Kyle Jorrey speaks to four Thousand Oaks entrepreneurs about what can be done to improve nightlife in the city and…

In the wake of an attention-grabbing new report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, atmosphere research scientist Benjamin Hatchett of the Desert Research Institute join…

Moorpark Acorn editor Dan Wolowicz joins Branching Out to break down how the paper's big Kanye West scoop came together. Plus, Thousand Oaks Acorn reporter Dawn Megli discusses her recent piece in Po…

Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Camarillo) joins Branching Out to talk on a range of subjects, including the failed recall of the governor and what comes next, her votes on housing bills SB 9 and 10, …

Reporter Makena Huey makes her Branching Out debut to discuss her latest stories for the Moorpark Acorn, including one detailing how a pedestrian bridge came to be named for an 11-year-old drowning v…