John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Wednesday Headlines
Details surface from the Gorge shooting, Amazon gets sued over Prime memberships, and the U.S. World Cup roster is stacked with PNW talent.
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NW braces for 2023 wildfire season, expected to be a costly one
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He's studied these ‘living fossils’ for over 50 years. They’re still a bit of a mystery
UW professor Peter Ward takes us on a fabulous trip in search of a seemingly extinction-proof creature, and in doing so tells us a lot about humanity’s possible future
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Can the OL Reign finally rein in a championship this year?
Writer Oliver Hunt thinks they have what it takes.
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How is Washington's snowpack looking this spring?
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Will City Hall give downtown Seattle a tax break?
Downtown Seattle stakeholders are urging city leaders to provide some tax relief to help spur the neighborhood's recovery from pandemic slowdowns. But some at City Hallmay not agree on the solutions to downtown's economic woes.
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3 months into a school ban for girls and women, a report from Kabul
One of the boys started out and just said, “I apologize. I hate walking out the door every morning to go to school and my sister can’t.”
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Washington ferries still floating back to pre-pandemic service levels
Washington state's ferry system now has four of its eight routes back to pre-pandemic service levels. But the state's only international route, Anacortes to Sidney, B.C., won't be back until 2030 at the earliest.
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Esteemed author and traveler Jonathan Raban has died
He was highly regarded for his travel writing but didn't want to be considered a travel writer.
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Food bank visits dropped early this year, then shot up, depleting inventories
‘There were several pandemic era programs that were providing additional support to the hunger relief sector, and those programs expired. The reserves we had purchased with those funds were all depleted by the middle of the summer.’ -Linda Nageotte