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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Tacoma City Council signs off on new fee for recycling
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Recent test scores show widening performance gap in Seattle schools
Is the test part of the problem?
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Questions that remain after Boeing CEO Muilenberg's Congressional testimony this week
KUOW's Kim Malcolm interviews Banalyst Richard Aboulafia.
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Environment
Those vibrant fall colors in the Northwest are likely to stick around for awhile
Kim Malcolm talks with Ray Larson, curator for the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.
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Health
‘We feel like there's a serial killer on the street.’ Fentanyl’s death toll in the Seattle area
Gabe Lilienthal, a Ballard High School student, died on September 29, after taking what he thought was oxycodone.
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Health
Flavored vaping banned for four months in Washington state
The Wash. state Board of Health voted Wednesday afternoon to temporarily ban flavored vaping products, including flavored THC. The decision comes after more than a thousand people have come down with a vaping-related lung illness.
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You’re compassionate, so why aren’t you helping homeless people? Shankar Vedantam explains
This is Shankar Vedantam’s interview with Kim Malcolm, which was so good we transcribed it (lightly edited for clarity).
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Environment
The biggest soot polluter in the region is on King County land. Should it be?
Kim Malcolm talks with investigative reporter Robert McClure about the Ardagh Group's glass recycling plant in south Seattle.
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Environment
3 things you can do right now to help fight climate change
Kim Malcolm talks with the Nature Conservancy's James Schroeder about how small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference in fighting climate change.
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Environment
How climate change can affect your mental health
Kim Malcolm talks with Dr. Lise Van Susteren about the emotional toll of climate change.