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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Return of the head tax? 5 things to expect with new Seattle City Council
Kim Malcolm talks with David Hyde about the potential impact of the recent Seattle City Council elections.
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Why the Pierce County Executive wants $30 car tabs, even if it could mean less transit
Kim Malcolm talks with Pierce County Executive and Sound Transit board member Bruce Dammeier about the passage of Initiative 976.
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New Seattle City Council, same policy on homelessness?
Homelessness was a big issue – maybe THE issue -- for Seattle voters in Wednesday’s City Council election. But the results are mixed bag ... so far.
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Why Kshama Sawant wanted to make Seattle's election all about Amazon
Seattle's local election had been focused on local city issues like homelessness. That changed after Amazon poured $1.5 million into city council races, giving city council member Kshama Sawant the opponent she really wanted all along: Jeff Bezos
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Social media's impact on Washington elections
Twitter's ban on political ads puts a new spotlight on political ads on social media. Kim Malcolm asks The Stranger Associate Editor Eli Sanders how this could play out in Washington in advance of next week's election.
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Tacoma City Council signs off on new fee for recycling
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Recent test scores show widening performance gap in Seattle schools
Is the test part of the problem?
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Questions that remain after Boeing CEO Muilenberg's Congressional testimony this week
KUOW's Kim Malcolm interviews Banalyst Richard Aboulafia.
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Those vibrant fall colors in the Northwest are likely to stick around for awhile
Kim Malcolm talks with Ray Larson, curator for the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.
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‘We feel like there's a serial killer on the street.’ Fentanyl’s death toll in the Seattle area
Gabe Lilienthal, a Ballard High School student, died on September 29, after taking what he thought was oxycodone.