Kim Malcolm
Afternoon News Host
About
Kim is the local news host of KUOW's All Things Considered, airing from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays. Kim covers breaking and developing daily news, both local and regional, as part of NPR's afternoon drive time programming. She has covered the arts, municipal government, politics, and misinformation as part of KUOW's Stand with the Facts live event series, in partnership with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. She really enjoys election night coverage, in spite of herself. Kim started out in broadcast journalism in Calgary at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, before working at NPR member station KERA in Dallas and then KUOW. Kim spends most winters waiting for baseball season to start.
Location: Seattle and the Eastside
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Plenty of Amazon plastic to go around ... the Earth
There is more plastic from Amazon's packaging swirling in Earth's oceans, according the environmental advocacy group Oceana, which says the amount of plastic from the online retailer can circle the planet more than 800 times in the form of air pillows.
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Ways to give charitably during the holidays and throughout the year
Barredo says nonperishable food donations are always needed. He says he's seeing more and more families who are unsure of where their next meal is going to come from.
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What the Respect for Marriage Act means to and for Washingtonians
‘Right now, everything that's in the Respect for Marriage Act is already protected by existing Supreme Court decisions. If the Supreme Court were to go in and overrule Obergefell, and Windsor, that's when the Act would have more meat to it.’ UW Law professor Peter Nicolas
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UW team's hearing loss detection hack could change lives globally
"This is really fascinating because we typically think of the ear as something which receives sounds, but it turns out that the ear also generates sounds of its own." – UW Professor Shyam Gollakota
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This week in Seattle arts: a holiday favorite, a twist on Dickens, and more
‘It literally snowed on stage. They had this huge Christmas tree that at one point, grew and grew and grew and grew.’ -Mike Davis
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Ongoing rise in fentanyl deaths highlights need for treatment alternatives
‘I haven't seen anything like it in my 27 years of working with folks with opioid addiction and people experiencing overdoses.’ -Caleb Banta-Green
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Ho, ho, hold on, December! A winter wonderland to-do list
This week we’re bringing you gleeful, exploratory, deep-diving, and extravagant winter season event picks.
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Getting past the ‘hot flash’ cliché: the science of treating menopause
‘Specialists in this area, it's so important that we have shared decision making with our patients and discuss all the risks and all the benefits so women can make choices that are best for their quality of life during this period of time.’ -Dr. Susan Reed
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New podcast uncovers the hidden realities of Munchausen by proxy
"None of the experts that we talked to think that this abuse is rare. They think it's very rare that it's caught, and even more rare that there is a successful criminal conviction."
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Health officials urge caution as holidays near
Holiday season is right around the corner, the third since the Covid-19 pandemic began. And, once again, health officials are nervous about how the health care system will fare as people gather and viruses spread.