Lucy Soucek
Podcast Producer
About
Lucy Soucek is a podcast producer who works on THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a podcast about the wonder and resilience of nature. She's trudged through waist-deep sawgrass looking for pythons and planned reporting trips 5,000 miles away in Ireland.
Before KUOW, she was a producer at Orbit Media in NYC and an announcer/producer at Maine Public Radio. She has a graduate degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on longform narrative audio.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Could a broken ferry system help fix our cities?
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Business
Booming: Gen la(Z)y, vacant stores, pop-up shop quiz
Young people get a bad rap for refusing to go above and beyond at work. Is this just the latest battle in an endless generational war, or do young people really have less work ethic?
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Whatever happened to hustle?
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Business
Booming: Dorms for adults, Boeing in 'Jaws' territory, plus home size quiz
Seattle is running out of room. Could tiny, Tokyo-style apartments be part of the solution?
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Dorms for adults
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KUOW's Booming: Coming January 24 (TRAILER)
"Booming" is an economy podcast from a city that (almost) never stops growing.
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Education
A progress report on Washington schools
Washington’s education system has been through a lot in the past decade -changes in funding and the pandemic - and the Seattle Times Education Lab has been there to report on it all. Today, reporter Dahlia Bazzaz will walk us through these changes and what they mean for students and teachers across the state.
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Seattle has a new drug law. Now what?
Seattle’s new drug law is now in effect. It makes the possession and public use of narcotics a gross misdemeanor. But it also encourages law enforcement to coordinate diversion efforts: admit people into treatment programs before jail. Today we’re talking with Seattle Times staff reporter Sarah Grace Taylor about what kinds of options are out there for police if they see someone using drugs.
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Arts & Life
A guide to ghosts in the PNW
It's mid-October — the air is crisp, the morning fog is thick, and Halloween is just around the corner. Which means, it's time to tell some ghost stories. Today, we're revisiting a conversation we had with local author Bess Lovejoy who wrote a book on where to find spots in the Pacific Northwest where ghost stories have been told, and retold.
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Environment
Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 2
How science is being used to try to solve what seems like a losing battle.