Paige Browning
Newscaster
About
Paige Browning is a news anchor and reporter for KUOW Public Radio, covering breaking news and stories of significance in the Puget Sound region. Paige's work is featured on KUOW's airwaves daily, and she is a backup host for KUOW's drive-time shows and Seattle Now podcast.
A native of the Northwest, Paige takes special interest in stories about climate change, our changing culture(s), politics, and law. Paige's work has been featured on the NPR newscast, All Things Considered, Here and Now, the BBC, and local public radio stations throughout the northwest. She has lived and worked in Spokane, Missoula (MT), and Seattle.
Her specialty is writing news under a one day deadline, but she's also stepped onto wildfire scorched land, rappelled from a building, and been to the heart of protests for stories.
Paige likes to run, bike, camp, and linger around at art exhibits and concert venues, and thinks the Seattle Storm are the city's best team to see.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, beginner Spanish
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: SAG-AFTRA Shop Steward, Delta Gamma Alumna
Podcasts
Stories
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Council Member Mosqueda on the Best resignation, rethinking Seattle public safety
‘…this was never personal. This was not about one person.’
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Some good news (if we can call it that) amid the ongoing pandemic
Today we heard about a few bright spots in the coronavirus pandemic in Washington state. KUOW’s Anna Boiko-Weyrauch attended a briefing from state health officials. She shares what she learned.
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Carmen Best and the big picture: Not 'just a story about a police chief resigning'
‘It would be really, really hard for a Black woman within a kind of inherently racist institution, like a police department, to change that police department by herself.’
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Pros and cons of disbanding Seattle's Navigation Team
‘We believe there's a much better model’ vs. ‘I think there is benefit to having police involved in that work.’
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Northshore School District doubles down on distance learning for this fall
The Northshore School District is planning to start the upcoming school year with 100% distance learning. Superintendent Michelle Reid told KUOW about the experience of quickly pivoting to distance learning in the spring, and described how the pandemic has further exposed inequities in education
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Seattle City Council votes to cut police staffing and salaries
The Seattle City Council has voted to cut SPD staffing and salaries. They say they’re making these changes in response to weeks of protests against systemic racism and police brutality.
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Boeing layoffs hit amid progress on unemployment backlog
‘We don't know how many workers are next.’
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New King County proposal: Close the youth jail by 2025
King County Executive Dow Constantine on Tuesday proposed a plan that activists have long called for: closing the youth jail.
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Friday politics: Seattle mayor and council battle over police budget
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin came out swinging at the Seattle City Council this week, laying out plans to reduce the police budget by about 20 percent and calling the council's plan for considerably larger cuts irresponsible.
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Good news from Salish Sea: J pod is back in its summer haunt
This endangered orca pod has spend the past week near San Juan Island and other inland waters.