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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'Lunch shaming' banned in cafeterias in Washington state
Last fall Giovanni Inton's second-grade son came home from school and told his dad he was hungry. So Inton asked what all parents ask: “What did you...
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Seattle's last frontier: KUOW begins its reporting along Aurora Avenue
Commuters — in 43,000 cars every weekday — see Aurora Avenue as a river. Pedestrians trying to cross from one side to the other see it as a wall. In...
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How misleading Facebook ads played out in a Seattle election
KUOW's Kim Malcolm talks with The Stranger associate editor Eli Sanders about how micro-targeting of Facebook ads has been used in Seattle elections....
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Landlords jacking up your rent? This bill would make them pay you
New protections may be on the way for Seattleites who can no longer afford rent. Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant says she'll introduce a bill...
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If a trade war breaks out, how vulnerable is Washington?
Last week, President Trump slapped tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel. As the most trade-dependent state in the country, what's the potential...
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Why doctors can turn away Medicare patients, even if they pay cash
Last week, KUOW listener Carole Glickfeld reached out to us with a story. She had come down with walking pneumonia. “I was very weak, feverish, I felt...
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Is Seattle a hockey town? More than you might realize
Kim Malcolm talks with Jeff Obermeyer about the history of professional hockey in Seattle. Obermeyer runs the Seattle Hockey website and is author of...
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Why are wealthy school districts in WA about to get richer?
Kim Malcolm talks with Seattle Times reporter Neal Morton about why some wealthier school districts are getting a bigger boost in funding than poorer...
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So much for young blood, millennials give the least
Millennials sure do get blamed for a lot. And here's one more thing: According to a new national poll, millennials are the largest generation in the...
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This Yakima Valley school district has had guns on campus since 2014
Following a mass shooting at a Florida high school two weeks ago, lawmakers and President Donald Trump have reintroduced the idea of arming teachers. In...