John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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As Winter Olympics fever spreads, an update on athletes with PNW ties
We’re one week into the Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina. To help focus on Pacific Northwest athletes participating this year, we looked around the station for the person who seemed the most hyped up about the games. And the winner is KUOW host, newscaster, reporter, and diehard sports fan Paige Browning. She talked to ATC host Kim Malcolm about the games so far.
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Former Microsoft executive’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny
Seattle Times business reporter Alex Halverson has written about connections between Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold.
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Seahawks primed for Super Bowl grudge match with Patriots
The Seattle Seahawks will return to the Super Bowl this Sunday to take on the New England Patriots. The last time the Seahawks made it to the league championship game was 2015, when they lost in the final minutes to the Tom Brady-led Pats. For a look ahead to the big game, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to Jerry Brewer, who writes about sports for The Athletic.
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WA among states trying to block the sale of people's precise location data
Politicians in over half a dozen Democrat-led states, including Washington, want to ban companies from selling information about people's precise location. This, amid concerns that such data will be used to target vulnerable people, including immigrants. Former public radio correspondent Austin Jenkins covers infrastructure and the disruption industry for Pluribus News. He wrote recently about groups for and against banning location tracking. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to him about his reporting.
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They surprised their dad with a trip to the NFC Championship. The video went viral
A short video made the rounds of social media this week. In it, we see a man in a Seattle Seahawks jersey riding in a car. “Why did we come all the way to Seattle?,” he asks, and someone laughs. It was Sunday, January 25, the day of the NFC Championship game between the Seahawks and the LA Rams. To learn about the backstory of this now viral video, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to University of Washington graduate and UCLA medical school student Irvin Garcia.
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Seahawks have to ‘let it rip’ to best Rams in NFC championship Sunday
For the first time in 11 years, the Seattle Seahawks return to the NFC Championship game Sunday, facing off for the third time this season against the Los Angeles Rams. Twelves and fair-weather fans alike are feeling pretty good about the Hawks’ chances after they trounced the 49ers last week. For insights on what might be coming at Lumen Field this weekend, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out to Jerry Brewer, who writes about sports for The Athletic.
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Portland’s approach to homelessness enters a new era
In Portland, Oregon, a new mayor and the city council are in the early stages of a change of direction on tackling homelessness, even as the number of unhoused people in Multnomah County has risen to 7,500 and continues to tick upward. OPB reporter Alex Zielinski covers Portland city politics. She gave KUOW’s Kim Malcolm this update on the homelessness situation there.
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How to 'take care of business' when your wastewater treatment site becomes a flood zone
King County Executive Girmay Zahilay gave a shout out this week to a county employee who went above and beyond in the midst of area flooding. Tyler Stiltner is the senior operator in charge at the wastewater treatment site in Carnation. He told KUOW’s Paige Browning about what happened.
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'It felt like a movie.' Whatcom County couple watched as their house was swept down the river
Mike Khazak and Sarah Hansen rushed to save themselves, their dogs, and their goats last week as their home in Deming, Washington, was swept into the Nooksack River. The dramatic moment was captured in a viral video that circulated across the country and around the world.
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Catastrophic flooding threatens thousands in Skagit County
As many as 78,000 people have been urged to evacuate from flood zones in Washington’s Skagit River Valley. Officials expect the river to crest in Mount Vernon around 4 am tomorrow morning.