Will James
Audio Documentary Producer
About
As an audio documentary producer, Will James creates deeply-reported podcasts and specials that illuminate complicated and polarizing issues in the Seattle region. He hosted, co-reported, and co-produced Lost Patients, a 2024 podcast series by KUOW and The Seattle Times that explores why people with serious mental illness cycle between emergency rooms, jail, and the streets.
Will previously worked at KNKX Public Radio, where he created the 2020 podcast Outsiders and co-created the 2022 podcast The Walk Home. Prior to working in audio journalism, he reported for newspapers in his home state of New York.
Podcasts
Stories
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Adults in the Room, Episode 6: The boy in the photograph
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City says $30.5 million Seattle CHOP verdict ‘excessive,’ asks for new trial
The city of Seattle has asked for a new trial and said it plans to appeal the $30.5 million verdict that found the city negligent in the fatal shooting of a teenager at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest in 2020.
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Adults in the Room, Episode 5: The Bet
This episode includes graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. If you or someone you know needs support, text the word HOPE to 64673. Please take care while listening.
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Episode 4, Adults in the Room: 'Jonathan'
Garfield High mourns a beloved teacher who dies by suicide. One student — who acted as the teacher’s confidant — wonders if he’s to blame.
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Episode 3: Adults in the Room, 'Blame the Messenger'
Months go by as two student reporters anxiously await the results of an investigation into a teacher accused of sexual misconduct. Then a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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Episode 2: Price of Belief, Adults in the Room
Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student. In the fallout of the revelation about their principal, Isolde and Ella hear a second-hand allegation of child abuse against teacher Tom Hudson from a member of his outdoors club, Post 84. The students debate what they should do and decide to bring the allegation to their journalism teacher, Dave Ehrich, and Isolde’s parents.
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New KUOW docuseries: Adults in the Room
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.
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Two Seattle girls learn a secret at their high school. Their lives change forever.
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Surviving teen shot at Seattle CHOP refiles lawsuit
Robert West, who was 14 years old when he was shot in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020, sued the city of Seattle on Thursday, seeking unspecified damages to compensate for what he says are “catastrophic and permanently disfiguring injuries.”
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Front Page: Rainier Beach teens fatally shot, ICE protests in Seattle; Antonio Mays Jr settlement, Zach Top wins a Grammy
At the start of every week we talk about the most fascinating stories in the news and what they say about the Pacific Northwest. We call it Front Page.