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
-
Health
Coronavirus cases in King County still rising. Highest numbers since April
‘I'm very confident that we'll see much higher levels of transmission in the fall and winter.’ –Dr. Jeffrey Duchin
-
Education
New Trump administration rule has Washington's international students on edge
‘I'm not going to be able to do the work that I need to do successfully.’
-
Fireworks shows may have been canceled this year, but air quality shows plenty went off
If you felt like there were more fireworks going off in your neighborhood this year around the Fourth of July, you were probably right. Air quality data is in. Local agencies say that particulate pollution was equivalent to previous years, despite the fact that all major public fireworks displays were canceled throughout Western Washington. Where did it all come from? (You know who you are)
-
More families appear to be homeless in Seattle than before, and other take-aways from this report
Top causes: job loss, alcohol and drug use, mental health issues
-
What Andre Taylor sees, and hopes to prevent, in the CHOP
‘If you are challenging systems because of Black bodies, well, Black bodies have been killed in your area.’
-
A second teen is dead in CHOP shooting. ‘Enough is enough,’ says Seattle Police chief
Protesters say they are not causing the violence and that they’ll stay.
-
Government
‘The virus is everywhere,’ warn King County health officials as new Covid-19 cases emerge
King County saw a 60% increase in new coronavirus cases in a single week.
-
Health
Covid-19 cases still on the rise in Phase 2 of reopening King County
Seattle and King County are officially in phase two of reopening. But over the past week, the number of people with a confirmed case of Covid-19 has trended upwards, quickly.
-
Race & Identity
A safe space for Black people to center on healing and joy on Juneteenth
Blackout CHOP creates a place to rest, grieve, celebrate, and not hold space for others
-
Law & Courts
A view of the SCOTUS Title VII decision from Justice Mary Yu
Until Monday, it was legal to fire workers for being LGBTQ in more than half of U.S. states