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Kim Malcolm

Afternoon News Host

About

Kim is the local news host of KUOW's All Things Considered, airing from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays. Kim covers breaking and developing daily news, both local and regional, as part of NPR's afternoon drive time programming. She has covered the arts, municipal government, politics, and misinformation as part of KUOW's Stand with the Facts live event series, in partnership with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. She really enjoys election night coverage, in spite of herself. Kim started out in broadcast journalism in Calgary at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, before working at NPR member station KERA in Dallas and then KUOW. Kim spends most winters waiting for baseball season to start.

Location: Seattle and the Eastside

Languages: English

Pronouns: she/her

Podcasts

Stories

  • caption: A teenage boy shows a social media post showing the arrest of his father by federal agents, as he stands outside the ICE Los Angeles Staging Facility looking for the location of his father in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

    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.
  • caption: Left to right: Betsaid and Irvin Garcia and their father.

    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.
  • caption: Seattle Seahawks linebacker Drake Thomas (42) is congratulated by linebacker Ernest Jones IV, middle, and cornerback Riq Woolen after intercepting a pass against the San Francisco 49ers during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.

    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.
  • caption: RVs and tents line a street above the highway at an encampment of unhoused people in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 31, 2025.

    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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    New KUOW podcast 'Control-F' debuts

    How many undocumented immigrants live in the United States? How is the poverty line calculated? And what information are companies tracking about us as we surf the internet? Well, Wednesday is the debut of a KUOW podcast about the data that is shaping our lives every day, even if we don't realize it. It's called "Control F," and it's hosted by KUOW's Clare McGrane and Teo Popescu.
  • caption: University of Washington Huskies quarterback Demond Williams Jr. plays against Washington State University in the Apple Cup on September 20, 2025.

    The Huskies quarterback that just left just came back

    Huskies star quarterback Demond Williams Jr. made a surprise announcement last week that he would enter the transfer portal, leaving the University of Washington despite signing a contract just days earlier. UW threatened to sue to enforce the contract with Williams. The day after that announcement, sportswriter Danny O’Neil, author of The Dang Apostrophe Substack newsletter, said, “I don’t think anyone expects the resolution here is Demond Williams plays for the Huskies in 2026.” The next day, Williams said he would return to the Huskies. O'Neil talks about how he’s been shocked twice in one week by this ongoing saga.
  • caption: Flooding from the White River is shown surrounding homes near Butte Avenue on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, in Pacific.

    As Washington state's flood recovery unfolds, what resources can people expect?

    We don't have numbers yet on how many Washington homes and businesses have experienced flooding. Emergency officials say it's too early to even guess until flood waters recede. But for people starting to clean up, the safety issues are serious. Flood waters can bring sewage and bacteria, which cause mold and other hazards. To find out more about what's ahead in the recovery process, Kim Malcolm talked to KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg, who has been reporting on what assistance will be available to Western Washingtonians as they recover.