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Jason Burrows

Producer/Announcer

About

Jason M Burrows is part of the Production Team on Soundside, and takes on announcing duties when needed.

He got his start onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln volunteering for the ship's KRUZ-FM, then spent 15 years as the "Jack of all Trades" at 96.5 Jack-FM.

Location: Seattle

Languages: English

Pronouns: he/him

Professional Affiliations: Military Veterans in Journalism

Podcasts

Stories

  • caption: Downtown Tacoma.
    Health

    Tacoma TB patient eludes authorities

    Soundside host Libby Denkmann talks to Matt Driscoll of the News Tribune in Tacoma about the person with a confirmed case of tuberculosis who has evaded authorities for over a year.
  • caption: Tree canopy over Seattle, Wash.
    Government

    After more than a decade, Seattle passes new rules to protect more city trees

    Seattle is known as the Emerald City, but over the past couple decades it’s been losing a lot of what makes it green. The city’s most recent tree canopy assessment, released in 2021, found that Seattle’s tree cover had dropped to 28.1 percent -- short of a goal set nearly 15 years earlier of getting canopy coverage to at least 30 percent. To protect more trees from development, many urban forest advocates have spent years asking for an update to rules for removing and replacing trees in Seattle. On Tuesday, those rules were finally updated.

  • caption: The Washington Capitol in Olympia.
    Government

    WA Legislature votes on a Blake fix. Now drug courts have to adapt

    In the hours before Washington’s legislative session ended last month, House Democrats called a vote. It was for a fix to what’s called “The Blake Decision” -- a 2021 state Supreme Court ruling striking down Washington’s felony drug possession law. In response, legislators put in place a temporary fix that treated knowingly carrying drugs as a misdemeanor. That measure is set to expire July 1st. But as the clock ticked down on the regular session, the votes weren’t there. The State House failed to pass the bill, which threw the future of the state’s drug possession law into question – and prompted a number of cities and counties to start passing their own patchwork of regulations.

  • Little Si trail
    Environment

    Take the bus to these King County hiking trails, starting May 13

    You can take the bus to the trails! King County Metro & King County Parks have partnered to get folks out of the city & into NATURE! Soundside host Libby Denkmann sits down with The Wilderness Society's "Urban to Wild" director Kitty Craig to talk about expanding equity in the outdoors!
  • caption: A large crowd gathers to listen to Deep Sea Diver perform on Friday, November 12, 2021, at Showbox in Seattle.
    Arts & Life

    How to stretch your summer concert budget

    Festivals like Bumbershoot have announced they're returning after years-long hiatuses. On the flip side, people are fuming about ticket prices and availability for big arena shows like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen. It's a time of making difficult decisions about how to spend your money.