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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Health
'We're going to be tested.' Facing facts to weather the Covid-19 storm
Author Laurie Garrett (The Coming Plague) recommends putting aside differences
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Arts & Life
With canceled performances, coronavirus leaves Seattle arts organizations reeling
Kim Malcolm talks with Marcie Sillman about the impact of coronavirus on Seattle's arts & culture community.
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Business
Coronavirus is already devastating small businesses in Seattle
Kim Malcolm talks with Jon Scholes, President and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the business community in Seattle.
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'Hope is not a strategy,' says Kirkland city manager of coronavirus response
As an illness spread through a nursing home in Kirkland in late February, City Manager Kurt Triplett says that testing was a key missing factor that left officials unsatisfied as they responded to the outbreak.
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'We need improvement' in federal response to COVID-19, Durkan stresses
Kim Malcolm speaks with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan about the city's response to the coronavirus outbreak, and the federal response so far.
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The ominous days leading up to the coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area
It was odd, the firefighter thought, how many calls were coming from the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland.
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Health
Health officials make new recommendations as Coronavirus deaths rise
‘…we can't expect people to go for months and months, you know, without school and without being able to go to work.’
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Health
Live blog: Coronavirus updates in Seattle area (Feb 29-March 2)
This post will be updated periodically with information about the coronavirus. Scroll down for older information. Top line information: *A man died on Friday of presumed coronavirus in Kirkland, Washington, across the lake from Seattle. He is the first documented death from a virus in the U.S. He had underlying medical conditions. *2 people from a nursing care facility in Kirkland tested positive for the novel coronavirus. *50 more people from that nursing facility are sick and waiting for results about whether they have the virus. *10 CDC workers from Atlanta flew to Seattle this weekend, bound for the nursing care facility in Kirkland.
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Health
King County health officials say don't panic about coronavirus, but be prepared
Kim Malcolm talks with Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Public Health, Seattle & King County about how King County is preparing for coronavirus.
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Politics
King County is giving free bus passes to thousands of low income residents
Kim Malcolm talks with King County councilmember Rod Dembowski about the county's plan to provide free bus passes to its lowest income residents.