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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16,000 Amazon employees just lost their jobs. Are we in a tech recession?
It's the latest in a series of tech layoffs over the past few years that have pushed Seattle’s unemployment rate well above the national rate.
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Lessons from the state that made child care free
In November, New Mexico became the first state to launch free, universal child care. So what can Washington learn from the state that managed to pull it off?
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How a bad bet built the internet: a short history of bubbles
Sometimes, an economic crash leaves something good behind that we may not appreciate for years. This week, we look at bubbles from the past and ask: When the money burns away, what’s left?
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The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home
Chris unravels the journey of Humpback whales in the Salish Sea and explores the groundbreaking techniques researchers are using to protect them.
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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?