Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
About
Matt is currently a podcast producer for KUOW. Before switching over to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record for two years.
Matt came to Seattle after spending time up in rural Alaska working as a reporter among the salmon and bears. He also has worked as a reporter in upstate New York and got his start in radio as an intern with StoryCorps in New York City.
Matt is actually a native Washingtonian and grew up in the deserts of the Yakima Valley. He got his undergrad degree in Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic from Brigham Young University.
Podcasts
Stories
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Wild: The wildlife super dog that can save us from bears
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan!
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Wild: What trees are saying when we aren't looking
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan!
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Wild: How would you rate your relationship to nature, animals?
One day, on Kodiak Island in Alaska, Richard Louv was walking down a narrow trail near a cabin where he was staying. “And this is very wild area and per capita bear population is huge compared to humans,” Richard said. “And these are the Alaskan brown bears. This is the biggest of the grizzlies, I believe.”
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Wild: A river runs through it ... once again
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Return to Svalbard: Earth's icy food chain is about more than polar bears
It's a beautiful, still arctic morning about 600 miles from the North Pole. And there is a polar bear right over my shoulder.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
KUOW's 'The Wild' with Chris Morgan returns in February
Season 2 of the podcast will be available beginning February 18.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
What I learned about bears, from a dentist and engineer
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall. Below is one of the stories from host Chris Morgan.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Looking an orca in the eye: 'The closest thing to alien contact I may ever know'
It was a clear and cold winter day. Alone on my paddle board, I had what seemed like the entire Salish Sea to myself.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
The moral dilemma of a Buddhist on a squid jigging trip
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall. Below is one of the stories from Shin Yu, former poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, who had a crisis of conscience while hunting squid on Puget Sound.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Stalking brown bears while sick with giardia and other stories from 'The Wild'
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall.