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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Law & Courts
Their son died in a hazing incident at WSU. They've since worked to change Washington's laws around hazing
‘One question that I ask myself over and over again since that night is what if just one of those young men had been trained to recognize hazing and had said no, had intervened or called for help?’
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Government
State senator proposes lowering WA’s blood alcohol limit to .05
‘I always tell people, these collisions are preventable. That's the message we have to get across every day.’
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Arts & Life
Arts picks include an improv musical, a Nikkei farmer tribute and a contemporary opera
‘I cannot imagine how quickly their minds come up with all of this.’
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Education
State advisory group votes against adding Covid vaccination to WA schools requirement list
‘At the end of the day, the vote was actually really close.’
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Arts & Life
MLB lockout may threaten baseball’s season and its fragile relationship with fans
‘At the end of the day, no baseball on opening day is going to hurt both of these sides where it hurts the most, in the pocket book.’
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Government
King County repeals bike helmet law, but all sides still agree: wear your helmet
King County's Board of Health voted Thursday to repeal its helmet law that required bike riders to wear helmets or face $30 fine, and additional court fees.
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Arts & Life
She returned to the NW when the Taliban took power. Now she's back in Afghanistan — by choice
‘Taliban are who are here. We need to support the Afghan process of re-establishing the government. I'm an American. One day, the Taliban were my enemy. In the next week, they were my neighbors, and I had to work with them.’
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Education
Seattle Schools' report card mirrors statewide dip in standardized test results
‘Seattle Public Schools said this is just one measure of student growth, but can be useful to gauge how well a particular student is doing over time.’
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Crime
Violence and property crime are up in Seattle. Here's how officials plan to tackle it
Violent and property crime in Seattle rose in 2021, and local officials are trying to respond. Mayor Bruce Harrell said he’s directed police to focus on violence and disorder in "hotspots" like Little Saigon.
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Arts & Life
This Seattle non-profit is giving $5,000 grants to local musicians, no strings attached
‘It helped them make records. It helped them hire professional services, publicists, promotions. The real challenge, when you're an emerging artist, is you don't have somebody else helping you with a lot of these things that you need to do.’