Lucy Soucek
Senior Podcast Producer
About
Lucy Soucek is a senior producer at KUOW. She helped launch and now produces Booming, a podcast about the economic forces shaping our lives here in the Pacific Northwest. She also produces THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a podcast about the wonder and resilience of nature.
She's trudged through waist-deep sawgrass looking for pythons, waded through rivers in Alaska, and recorded fish sounds in the deep caves of Death Valley.
Before KUOW, she was a producer at Orbit Media in NYC and an announcer/producer at Maine Public Radio. She has a graduate degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on longform narrative audio.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Housing costs dropped in Austin. How they did the impossible
Over the last few years, Austin's average rent fell. So what is Austin doing right? And what could Seattle learn from it?
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Revisiting Seattle's udon scene
Tan visits udon noodle house Azuki in Madison Valley to learn about how Chef Ryuji Miyata makes his noodles by hand. Later, Tan recommends some more casual and budget-friendly udon places.
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How stores are spying on you (encore)
How AI is being used by some of your favorite retailers to get better at... selling you stuff. This story originally aired in December 2024.
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How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)
A conversation with author Ben Goldfarb on how our roads impact pretty much everything in the natural world.
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Japan's bear attacks: we unravel what's going on
Bear attacks in Japan have been on the rise recently. So why is this happening? And what can be done about it?
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What happens to Seattle if the AI bubble pops?
Companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build the AI infrastructure of the future. But companies are struggling to make a profit on the AI of today. So, is that future real, or just a mirage?
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BONUS: The future of Seattle's highways
Live event recorded at the Seattle Public Library hosted by Joshua McNichols and Ian Coss about the future of Seattle's State Route 99.
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Is coding dead? This professor doesn't think so
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The story of Whatcom Creek: an explosion, a tragedy, and a rebirth
The story of the 1999 pipeline explosion in Whatcom Creek, and how a community and a creek began to recover after seemingly irreversible devastation.
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Is coding dead? This professor doesn't think so
Companies appear to be making big bets that AI can replace huge chunks of their workforces. But this computer science professor says the outlook isn’t so bleak for kids who still want a career in tech.