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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Government
King County public defenders & corrections officers see eye-to-eye on Covid crisis in jails
‘The situation we have at the jails right now is kind of a perfect storm. You had chronic understaffing at the jail, which ran headfirst into this new Covid variant.’
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Health
Has omicron peaked in Washington? Possibly. The view from the Covid tunnel
‘The most recent estimate statewide is that 88,000 people are currently positive statewide. That’s one of the highest rates of the pandemic, but the surge may have slowed down since then.’
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When MLK came to town
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. only came to Seattle once, in 1961. He was invited by his longtime friend, Reverend Samuel B. McKinney of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. KUOW's Isolde Raftery tells Kim Malcolm about the message he brought with him that would become his most famous speech.
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Arts & Life
Weekend arts picks: NFT gets a museum, Fannie at Seattle Rep, and NAAM’s Virtual King Day
‘We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.’ - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Health
As WA lawmakers consider a safe staffing bill, nurses warn of crisis conditions and risks to patients
'It's really important that we do have this safe staffing standard because adding more patients to the nurse's workload is literally hurting patients every single day. It's not good for them.'
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Government
Sen. Patty Murray on her push for voting rights and the future of democracy
‘I'm one who believes strongly in the right of the minority party to have a voice, but we have reached a point where the Senate is not productive, because one senator can just say, I don't want to have a debate and we don't even get to debate the issue.’
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Arts & Life
Secret Seattle matinee and nerdy bookclub: arts picks
‘I think it's really cool because you have the kind of nerdy book club vibe of people who have read the same book as you, but you get to see people's interpretations of that novel in a whole different form.’
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Meet Libby Denkmann, host of KUOW’s new show Soundside
Starting on Monday, KUOW is going to sound very different if you tune in during the noon hour. That's when our new midday show Soundside will make its debut. Libby Denkmann is the host. She talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about her backstory and her plans for the show.
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Government
Fake SPD radio transmissions during 2020 protests ‘added fuel to the fire’
‘If there's anything else out there around the Seattle protests, let's get it out. Let’s get to the rock bottom of what happened, and that rock bottom is also a good place to build a new foundation.’
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Politics
WA taxpayers paid for three state lawmakers to attend election conspiracy event
‘They said, from their perspective, they have a lot of constituents in their districts reaching out to them and saying, we think there's something wrong with these 2020 election results and we support you looking into it.’