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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Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals
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Re: Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains
‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being completely polarized. We just know that the more we communicate and talk about things the better it will be, even if we’re not on the same page.’
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Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney
‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom.’
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Seattle Times 'Lives Remembered' series honors people we lost to COVID-19
‘I think the thing that strikes me most is just the sheer numbers. The Seattle Times knows of about only an eighth of the total deaths in Washington. For every name we know, there's so many more that we don't know.’
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Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility
An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song
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Race, reckoning, and redemption: Michael Eric Dyson’s message to White America
“How far are we willing to go? Are we prepared to sacrifice tradition and convention for genuine transformation?”
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How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year
Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward
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‘As a police officer, I have to be able to say I am sorry’
'Every one of these situations, you could see yourself there.'
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Will there be repercussions for frivolous Trump election lawsuits? UW law professor says yes
‘In about 10 minutes, I identified at least eight separate sections of those rules that one or the other, or all of these lawyers have violated.’
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Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age
'These men are going out to build a machine to understand how humans think and feel and would behave, and they don’t understand their wives and they don’t understand their children.'