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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Is a guaranteed income program right for Washington? Lawmakers are considering it
‘When you don't have to worry so much about taking care of your family's basic needs, you're in a much better position to focus at work and reimagine a different future for you and your family, whether that's going back to school, caring for young children during a difficult time like Covid, or looking for a new job.’
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Seattle music scene plays on despite ‘constant roller coaster’
‘Things have definitely improved, but I don't think anybody is breathing easily right now.’
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Starbucks workers’ union effort picks up steam in Seattle
"The company calls them partners. They want an arrangement where they feel more in partnership with the company. They feel like being able to bargain as part of a union would allow that, and would allow them to improve their working conditions."
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Latino voters sue over Yakima Valley's new legislative maps
‘…in reality, Latinos are having their votes diluted in the district, because they're being grouped in with rural white voters that have voting patterns that are opposite Latino voters.’
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Arts picks: falling to fly, cello findings, and internment anniversary reflections
It's Friday and the skies are clearing, so it’s time to look outside our caves and wonder what we can do this weekend. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm got these suggestions from Brangien Davis, Crosscut’s arts & culture editor.
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King County public defenders & corrections officers see eye-to-eye on Covid crisis in jails
‘The situation we have at the jails right now is kind of a perfect storm. You had chronic understaffing at the jail, which ran headfirst into this new Covid variant.’
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Has omicron peaked in Washington? Possibly. The view from the Covid tunnel
‘The most recent estimate statewide is that 88,000 people are currently positive statewide. That’s one of the highest rates of the pandemic, but the surge may have slowed down since then.’
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When MLK came to town
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. only came to Seattle once, in 1961. He was invited by his longtime friend, Reverend Samuel B. McKinney of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. KUOW's Isolde Raftery tells Kim Malcolm about the message he brought with him that would become his most famous speech.
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Weekend arts picks: NFT gets a museum, Fannie at Seattle Rep, and NAAM’s Virtual King Day
‘We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.’ - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As WA lawmakers consider a safe staffing bill, nurses warn of crisis conditions and risks to patients
'It's really important that we do have this safe staffing standard because adding more patients to the nurse's workload is literally hurting patients every single day. It's not good for them.'