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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Former city manager wanted a map of Muslim residences in SeaTac
Kim Malcolm talks with Seattle Times reporter Lewis Kamb about SeaTac's former interim City Manager James Payne. An independent report found that Payne...
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Where will the people in Seattle's notorious Jungle go?
It's the beginning of the end for the sprawling homeless camp under Interstate 5 known as the Jungle. This week, officials from the city of Seattle and...
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Seattle may ban rent increases in 'slumlord' buildings
Kim Malcolm speaks with Xochitl Maykovich, an organizer with the Washington Community Action Network, about a Seattle City Council proposal that would...
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I told my North Korean captors about life in America, and they were shocked
After a year in the North Korean prison, Kenneth Bae softened toward his guards.
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New drug taking lives in British Columbia
Kim Malcolm speaks with Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer about Fentanyl, an opiate claiming lives in British Columbia. Overdoses from this drug...
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Advocates say plan for the Jungle won't work
Kim Malcolm speaks with Tim Harris, local advocate for the homeless and founder of the street paper Real Change, about the plan to clear out and clean...
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Should we commercialize our state parks?
Kim Malcolm speaks with Seattle Times reporter Lynn Thompson about the trend of state parks seeking investment and partnerships with private companies....
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KPLU deal raises UW transparency questions
The University of Washington and KUOW officials worked to keep the acquisition of public radio station KPLU secret, according to a Seattle Times report....
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Are you living in one of Seattle's 'buildings that kill'?
Kim Malcolm speaks with Seattle Times reporter Sandi Doughton about why Seattle still has over a thousand unreinforced masonry buildings (full list here...
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Boeing Walks Tightrope Between Iran's 'Unicorn Market' And U.S. Government
Kim Malcolm talks to the Wall Street Journal's aerospace reporter Jon Ostrower about the steps Boeing has to take in pursuing a deal with Iran.