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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Groups and individuals look for ways to spread kindness during crisis
‘Hopefully when all this is over, we can be closer to each other as a community.’
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School closures continue, projections are optimistic, but we're not out of the woods
Paige Browning’s coronavirus updates: ‘A big moment for us to transform.’
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Seattle research institute launches fast track Covid-19 immunotherapy trial
‘We're in a whole new world now with how clinical trials are being conducted in the era of this pandemic.’
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More record-breaking unemployment as stay home order extended
‘Even with the steps we have taken, we should expect that at least 30% of the people of this region will contract the virus.’ –Mayor Durkan
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'Any day the sickness will arrive.' ICE detainees in Tacoma brace for COVID-19
This week, activists held a protest outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, pushing for the release of vulnerable detainees amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protest is taking the form of a car caravan to maintain social distancing.
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Governor Inslee asks industries to shift to wartime-style medical gear production
Paige Browning update on coronavirus impact and response
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COVID-19 news update: Tuesday edition
Keep calm, hunker down, stay healthy: Distance bends the curve
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Stimulus Friday: $3 billion in federal funds coming to Washington state
Paige Browning has the latest on the coronavirus crisis
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Grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic: Here's what you need to know about our food supply
Around the region, we’ve seen evidence of panic-buying at grocery stores: empty shelves or a low supply of certain items. It’s as if people are shopping out of fear that items won’t be restocked. Should we be concerned?
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"We've been through something major together. This virus doesn't discriminate based on race, class, creed," says Xavier Lopez Jr.
Xavier Lopez Jr. wears many hats. He writes a culture blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He holds down a day job to pay the bills. And “I’m a multi-media Latinx performance artist and conceptual sculptor.”