Will James
Audio Documentary Producer
About
As an audio documentary producer, Will James creates deeply-reported podcasts and specials that illuminate complicated and polarizing issues in the Seattle region. He hosted, co-reported, and co-produced Lost Patients, a 2024 podcast series by KUOW and The Seattle Times that explores why people with serious mental illness cycle between emergency rooms, jail, and the streets.
Will previously worked at KNKX Public Radio, where he created the 2020 podcast Outsiders and co-created the 2022 podcast The Walk Home. Prior to working in audio journalism, he reported for newspapers in his home state of New York.
Podcasts
Stories
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Episode 3: Adults in the Room, 'Blame the Messenger'
Months go by as two student reporters anxiously await the results of an investigation into a teacher accused of sexual misconduct. Then a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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Episode 2: Price of Belief, Adults in the Room
Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student. In the fallout of the revelation about their principal, Isolde and Ella hear a second-hand allegation of child abuse against teacher Tom Hudson from a member of his outdoors club, Post 84. The students debate what they should do and decide to bring the allegation to their journalism teacher, Dave Ehrich, and Isolde’s parents.
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New KUOW docuseries: Adults in the Room
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.
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Two Seattle girls learn a secret at their high school. Their lives change forever.
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Surviving teen shot at Seattle CHOP refiles lawsuit
Robert West, who was 14 years old when he was shot in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020, sued the city of Seattle on Thursday, seeking unspecified damages to compensate for what he says are “catastrophic and permanently disfiguring injuries.”
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Front Page: Rainier Beach teens fatally shot, ICE protests in Seattle; Antonio Mays Jr settlement, Zach Top wins a Grammy
At the start of every week we talk about the most fascinating stories in the news and what they say about the Pacific Northwest. We call it Front Page.
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Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen
After deliberating for 12 days, a King County jury found the city of Seattle negligent on Thursday in its emergency response to the 2020 fatal shooting of a teenager at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
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Seattle CHOP trial: Jury deciding if city is liable in teen’s death
A King County jury is now tasked with deciding whether the city of Seattle bears legal responsibility for the death of Antonio Mays Jr., the 16-year-old whose unsolved killing led to the shutdown of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in summer 2020.
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Seattle CHOP evidence revealed by city in wrongful death trial
Attorneys defending the City of Seattle from a wrongful-death lawsuit worked to build a case Monday that the second teenager killed at 2020’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest stole a Jeep and may have fired gunshots from it minutes before he was killed.
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Victim of unsolved Seattle CHOP killing featured in newly unearthed video
A newly unearthed video has revealed what is likely the last known footage of Antonio Mays Jr. speaking at 2020’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest just days before his death.