Best podcast episodes of 2018 from our own podcast producer My day job at KUOW is to produce and edit podcasts. I absolutely love the process of taking mountains of tape and ideas and transforming them into something focused and compelling. Caroline Chamberlain Gomez
He weighed 460 pounds. What confronting his size taught him about obesity in America "Losing weight is figuring out something you can live with," says Tommy Tomlinson, author of the new memoir The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America. Emma Bowman Play AudioListen 8 mins
Journalists Raise Money, Post Jobs And Buy Beers For Peers After A Week Of Layoffs After Buzzfeed, Gannett and Verizon's media group announced job losses this week, journalists across the country banded together to offer support. Amanda Morris
Publisher Of An Alabama Newspaper Calls For The KKK To 'Clean Out' Washington "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," said Goodloe Sutton, publisher of The Democrat-Reporter, after admitting he wrote an incendiary editorial. Sasha Ingber
Alabama Publisher Who Called For KKK To 'Ride Again' Is Replaced By Black Woman The new publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter, Elecia R. Dexter, took the reins on Thursday, after Goodloe Sutton doubled down on his incendiary comments. Merrit Kennedy
Knute Berger reflects on Seattle Weekly's life and death in print Kim Malcolm talks with Knute Berger about the death of the print edition of the Seattle Weekly. Kim Malcolm Andy Hurst Play AudioListen 5 mins
Ten years ago, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its final edition Kim Malcolm talks with journalist Robert McClure about the legacy of the Seattle P-I, and how the end of the paper's print edition impacted the journalism landscape in the Puget Sound region. Kim Malcolm Andy Hurst Play AudioListen 8 mins
Pulitzer Prizes Honor Journalists Under Threat With New Crop Of Winners Judges sought to support the media "even if some wrongly degrade [it] as the enemy of the very democracy it serves." Honors went to The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., Florida's Sun-Sentinel and others. Colin Dwyer
The U.S. Now Ranks As A 'Problematic' Place For Journalists "Never before have US journalists been subjected to so many death threats," Reporters Without Borders said in its annual World Press Freedom Index. President Trump "exacerbates" problems, it added. Sasha Ingber
