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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Why Seattle is giving free legal advice to immigrants on Inauguration Day
Kim Malcolm talks with Cuc Vu about why the city of Seattle is hosting an event on Inauguration Day to provide free legal advice to immigrants and...
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How the Supreme Court could derail Trump's plan to punish sanctuary cities like Seattle
Kim Malcolm talks with University of Washington law professor Hugh Spitzer about how previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions could prevent the Trump...
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Tough deadlines ahead for Washington lawmakers on education spending
Washington state lawmkers are back at the state Capitol for this year’s legislative session with one of the biggest spending questions looming over...
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Why the entire country (except Alabama) will be Husky fans this weekend
Kim Malcolm talks with Sam Sommers about the science behind why we root for underdogs in sports. Sommers is associate professor of psychology at Tufts...
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Mumps outbreak growing in King County
Kim Malcolm talks with Dr. Jeff Duchin about the growing mumps outbreak in King County. As of Wednesday, there were 108 current mumps cases in King...
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Republican to bigots: ‘We don't want your votes. We don't want your money’
Republican Chris Vance of Auburn, Washington, recently posted an editorial to his Facebook page this week, suggesting that people include their Muslim...
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Prosecutors moving forward with second Oregon standoff trial
Kim Malcolm talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter Conrad Wilson about the upcoming federal trial of a second group of defendants charged in the...
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Portland's answer to inequality: a tax on CEO pay
Kim Malcolm talks with Portland city commissioner Steve Novick about a new law designed to reduce income inequality. Publicly traded companies that do...
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Snow!? Here's how Seattle prepares
Kim Malcolm talks with Seattle Department of Transportation spokesperson Sue Romero about how Seattle is preparing for snow. Between one and three...
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Pearl Harbor changed her life. Now she wants us to learn from it
Fujiko Tamura Gardner was 9 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She remembers hearing about it on the radio at her parents’ farm in Fife,...