Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
Joshua has been the "growing pains" reporter since 2015, documenting the region's growth and change. Joshua “took the long way” to radio, working in architecture firms for over a decade before pursuing his passion for public radio in 2007. By "long way," he means he's also been a writer, bicycle courier, commercial fisherman, bed-and-breakfast cook, carpenter, landscaper and stained glass salesman. He’s detailed animal enclosures to prevent jaguars from escaping the Miami Zoo. Once, while managing a construction site in Athens, Greece, he was given a noogie by an Albanian civil war refugee in his employ. “You do not tell those guys how to place stucco,” he said. All of which has no doubt made him the story-teller he is today.
Podcasts
Stories
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In White Center, the economic safety net shows its gaps
This week, the federal government stopped giving unemployed people an extra 600 dollars a week. That represents a crisis for some people trying to make ends meet. But there’s another group of people who hear that story and think: I never managed to get any of that money in the first place.
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Covid on the Block: The pandemic's impact on Beacon Hill neighbors
Everyone has a story. That was the mantra as KUOW reporters set out to chronicle the lives of people who live and work on a small block in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood in the time of Covid-19. Read those stories at covidontheblock.com.
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KUOW Newsroom
New woman on the block: An Amazon worker falls in love with Beacon Hill
One afternoon in May, two months into the coronavirus pandemic in Seattle, Kate Huntington carried boxes of books and clothing into a shiny new apartment building. One box has business-oriented books like “Getting To Yes.”
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KUOW Newsroom
The 'Street Strider' of Beacon Hill
Pearl de La Cruz is out, riding on a surprising contraption that looks like a giant water bug crossed with a bicycle. “I’m coming by!” she yelled out, laughing.
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KUOW Newsroom
Pub on the block: The 'Cheers' of Beacon Hill faces pandemic challenges
Inside a one-story building on Beacon Hill, built in 1926, is a bar where customers consider each other family.
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KUOW Newsroom
‘It’s cry time.’ This Seattle woman’s response to the pandemic
Early in the pandemic, Ariana Bray would sit at the kitchen table in her apartment and look out at the world below.
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KUOW Newsroom
Ballard P-patch celebrates fundraising success, but it may not be enough
Gardeners at the Ballard P-Patch say they’re close to saving their community garden from development. But close may not be enough.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
King County Metro workers protest racism and pay inequities
Two forces came to a head this week at a protest in downtown Seattle. The economic impact of COVID and systemic racism.
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KUOW Newsroom
What protesters learned from CHOP's dueling Twitter accounts
The CHOP was shut down this week by Seattle officials. And now that it’s gone, protesters are examining and learning from the role that fake social media accounts played in spreading misinformation about the movement the CHOP represented.
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KUOW Newsroom
As city workers dismantle the CHOP, Omari Salisbury reflects
From Seattle's protests after the killing of George Floyd to the closing of the CHOP, journalist Omari Salisbury of Converge Media has been live-streaming what he sees every single day. Now, as police and city workers dismantle the CHOP, he stands in his doorway overlooking Cal Anderson park. And he struggles with emotion while answering a seemingly simple question: What do you see out there?