Alec Cowan
Senior Podcast Producer
About
Alec Cowan is a senior podcast producer at KUOW, where he works on Booming and other podcast projects.
Alec has worn many hats at KUOW. He helped launch Soundside and brought many eclectic stories to the program, from a late-night patrol with real life superheroes to the sewing machine sounds of an artisanal sail loft. Additionally, he was previously a producer for The Record with Bill Radke and the Primed podcast.
Before joining KUOW Alec worked in NPR's Story Lab, where he helped pilot the Louder Than a Riot podcast, about hip-hop and mass incarceration, and assisted in producing a story on volunteerism in Iraq for Rough Translation. Originally from Grand Junction, Colorado, his roots in the Northwest begin in Eugene, where he studied English and philosophy at the University of Oregon and worked as a news reporter for NPR member station KLCC. He is likely neglecting his saxophone, growing book collection, and expanding personal project list in favor of boosting his online Xbox ranking.
He's proud to be KUOW's unofficial "boat guy."
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: he/him/his
Podcasts
Stories
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Do WA students have enough time to eat? Investigating the 'lunch crunch'
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Canoeing the Columbia River from Montana to the Pacific
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Jazz has a storied past in Seattle. But what about its future?
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The governor's gambit: Bob Ferguson's rise from chess champ to state leader
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Post-election, the debate over natural gas access is far from over
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New study investigates bias in AI resume screening
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Forecasting the future battles between WA and a second Trump presidency
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How to destress — and maybe depolarize — after the election
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How medieval monsters got their meaning
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Our NW volcanoes regularly rumble. But when should we start to worry?
