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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Madeleine Albright sounds the alarm on fascism in new book
The work of diplomacy is subtle, but the actions of world leaders are sometimes the opposite. Famed American diplomat Madeleine Albright confronts the...
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Mini-episode: One guy skirts a medical-bill trap, and shares the secret.
Last year, a hashtag became an event in Seattle: #EducationSoWhite 2017 gave voice to and started a conversation about the lack of diversity among...
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Washington state schools grapple with #EducationSoWhite
Last year, a hashtag became an event in Seattle: #EducationSoWhite 2017 gave voice to and started a conversation about the lack of diversity among teachers in our schools. Ninety percent of Washington state teachers are white, while nearly half of the students are people of color.
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Alexander Chee’s guide to writing, becoming, love and loss
There’s a thing at talks around Seattle. Often enough, you can feel it when the crowd gets restless if the event goes to a certain length. You can see...
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A professor talks about public education in the Trump-DeVos era
If Diane Ravitch were running for office, her opponent might attack her for being "for Common Core before she was against it." Ravitch served as an...
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Listen to the keynote speeches from this year's March for Science
Last year thousands of people hit the streets of Seattle and the nation to march for all things scientific: respect for the scientific method, evidence...
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‘Once in one’s lifetime.’ How a beloved novel came to print and screen
You hear of situations where a book comes to a writer in a torrent. In this talk, writer André Aciman tells such a story about his well-loved novel, ...
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Remembering comedian Peggy Platt, a Seattle original
Over the last few years Speakers Forum has featured broadcasts of the Seattle theatre troupe Sandbox Radio . In that time we came to love the work of...
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‘Why are you entitled to be safe?’ the gun owner asked this teen
A couple of weeks ago, a fire alarm went off at Beatrice Cappio’s high school. “Everyone stopped to wonder, well, is there a shooter in the hall? Should we really leave?”
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Unwinding the shadowy backstory of the war in Afghanistan
Steve Coll is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winner “Ghost Wars,” is “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and...