John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Stories
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Arts & Life
Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own
‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’
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Health
Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19
How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming
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Seattle leaders talk gender inequality, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem
On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune
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Race & Identity
Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness
White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom
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Race & Identity
White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward
‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’
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Politics
Re: Building Democracy explores ways to mend our political, social, and cultural divides
‘Class blindness is the tendency for people with social class privilege to be unaware or blind to their advantages.’ -Professor Jennifer Sherman
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Arts & Life
Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals
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Politics
Re: Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains
‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being completely polarized. We just know that the more we communicate and talk about things the better it will be, even if we’re not on the same page.’
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Arts & Life
Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney
‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom.’
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Health
Seattle Times 'Lives Remembered' series honors people we lost to COVID-19
‘I think the thing that strikes me most is just the sheer numbers. The Seattle Times knows of about only an eighth of the total deaths in Washington. For every name we know, there's so many more that we don't know.’