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
Stories
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Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility
An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song
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Race & Identity
Race, reckoning, and redemption: Michael Eric Dyson’s message to White America
“How far are we willing to go? Are we prepared to sacrifice tradition and convention for genuine transformation?”
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Education
How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year
Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward
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Race & Identity
‘As a police officer, I have to be able to say I am sorry’
'Every one of these situations, you could see yourself there.'
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Law & Courts
Will there be repercussions for frivolous Trump election lawsuits? UW law professor says yes
‘In about 10 minutes, I identified at least eight separate sections of those rules that one or the other, or all of these lawyers have violated.’
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Technology
Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age
'These men are going out to build a machine to understand how humans think and feel and would behave, and they don’t understand their wives and they don’t understand their children.'
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Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens
‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it isn’t anymore.’
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Ways to give amid spiking food insecurity: money, food, time
‘Last year, 1.1 million Washingtonians had turned to a food pantry for hunger relief and food assistance. This year, we expect that that number has doubled to 2.2 million, or approximately a third of our state.’
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Government
The 'Seattle Process' in 2020. Are we becoming ungovernable?
‘Seattle is not silent. Seattle is not submissive. Seattle is not unthinking. Seattle will not be exploited, and Seattle is not obedient.’
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Health
Promising vaccine results amid spike in COVID-19 cases
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has released promising news in regards to a Covid-19 vaccine. During the companies' COVID-19 vaccine trials, early analysis shows their vaccine is more than 90% effective at preventing the virus. This news is timely as the United States and Washington State are currently heading into the biggest surge of coronavirus cases yet. Dr. Vinay Gupta is a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the University of Washington. He joined us to discuss the potential Covid-19 vaccine and rising cases in Washington state.