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
Stories
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Environment
How bad is our spring weather this year? Pretty miserable, but not like 1955
‘If you go back further in time, to the 1950s and 1960s, cold springs were much more common.’
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Crime
Newly obtained DNA from WA sex offenders may help solve cold cases
‘I have a team of six or seven people who spend all their days going through multiple databases to identify who these folks are.’
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Politics
Idaho goes to the primary polls with fringe right forces in play
‘It's just extraordinary that you have the sitting Lieutenant Governor of the state of Idaho on stage with a host of far-right speakers.’
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Arts & Life
On the arts calendar: Sweat, reSET, and time capsule visions of a future Black archive
Marcie Sillman shares creative options for your arts & culture weekend
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Arts & Life
Seattle’s 'Hope Corps' will pay unemployed and underemployed artists to create public art
‘When artists come into any community and work with that community, it's elevated. It gives a community a vision.’
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Arts & Life
Here's what not to miss at Seattle's TRANSlations film festival
‘TRANSlations is really one of a handful of film festivals in the world that centers trans and non-binary films and stories.’
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Education
Amid a shortage, one NW school district reimagines the role of substitute teachers
‘It's knowing that substitutes are not, as one of the sources said in my story, a Plan B or an afterthought, but a critical part of keeping schools running.’
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Law & Courts
‘We cannot let this stand.’ Sen. Patty Murray reacts to SCOTUS Roe v. Wade leak
‘Abortions are still going to happen. Young women will still find themselves in a situation. The wealthy women will have a place to go, and a doctor to take care of them and will be safe. The ones who aren't won’t.’
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Arts & Life
Around Seattle this spring: jazz, art, and other historic coalitions
‘Where do we perform, and more than that, teach young people about what it's like to perform live jazz?’
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Law & Courts
'I was raised to be an animal, and that's what happened.' Arthur Longworth's long, troubling path toward redemption
‘There's an enormous amount of realization these days, an appreciation for the unbelievable rates of incarceration among young people, either while they're in foster care or immediately afterwards.’