Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
As KUOW's Growth and Development reporter and co-host of KUOW's Booming podcast, Joshua's "growing pains" beat sits at the nexus of housing, transportation, urban planning, government and the economy. His favorite stories also include themes of history, technology, and climate change.
Joshua holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Washington. Public Radio is his second career; architecture was his first. He is proud of the many odd jobs he's held in his life, such as salmon fisher, author, bike courier, and bed-and-breakfast cook.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: he/him
Professional Affiliations: The Society of Professional Journalists, Western Washington Chapter
Podcasts
Stories
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The 'Street Strider' of Beacon Hill
Pearl de La Cruz is out, riding on a surprising contraption that looks like a giant water bug crossed with a bicycle. “I’m coming by!” she yelled out, laughing.
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Pub on the block: The 'Cheers' of Beacon Hill faces pandemic challenges
Inside a one-story building on Beacon Hill, built in 1926, is a bar where customers consider each other family.
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‘It’s cry time.’ This Seattle woman’s response to the pandemic
Early in the pandemic, Ariana Bray would sit at the kitchen table in her apartment and look out at the world below.
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Ballard P-patch celebrates fundraising success, but it may not be enough
Gardeners at the Ballard P-Patch say they’re close to saving their community garden from development. But close may not be enough.
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King County Metro workers protest racism and pay inequities
Two forces came to a head this week at a protest in downtown Seattle. The economic impact of COVID and systemic racism.
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What protesters learned from CHOP's dueling Twitter accounts
The CHOP was shut down this week by Seattle officials. And now that it’s gone, protesters are examining and learning from the role that fake social media accounts played in spreading misinformation about the movement the CHOP represented.
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As city workers dismantle the CHOP, Omari Salisbury reflects
From Seattle's protests after the killing of George Floyd to the closing of the CHOP, journalist Omari Salisbury of Converge Media has been live-streaming what he sees every single day. Now, as police and city workers dismantle the CHOP, he stands in his doorway overlooking Cal Anderson park. And he struggles with emotion while answering a seemingly simple question: What do you see out there?
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CHOP will end, but the memory of its art will remain
Murals around the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest Zone in Seattle are disappearing. Most of the brightly colored barriers are gone now. And the words painted on the street are already looking less bright. Over the last weeks, KUOW's been talking to people painting graffiti in the CHOP to learn what it meant to paint in the streets during a movement like this.
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The CHOP's long goodbye
CHOP, Capitol Hill’s Organized Protest zone in Seattle, is going to end soon. City officials have made that clear. But protesters disagree on how soon the end will come.
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Here's what I've learned feeding protesters in Seattle
Jimaine Miller, A.K.A. the Def Chef, has been cooking a lot lately. That’s his job, but for weeks he’s also been cooking for protesters who march for racial equality and he's been cooking for people in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, known as the CHOP. He cooks with hundreds of pounds of donated food, and gives it away for free. And it's changed him in ways he didn't expect.