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
David Brooks and the moral response to 'a national valley of distrust and disconnection’
David Brooks considers the ways human nature and ingenuity can help us rise above disunion
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Technology
You butt-dialed your mom with this supercomputer
It took a village to birth the digital revolution
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Arts & Life
Three women, many stories about sex and desire
Author Lisa Taddeo was getting questions, such as, “What the f**k are you doing in the middle of Indiana?”
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Arts & Life
Killer whales go through menopause, too, but the other orcas respect them
Coming to terms with the millennia-long struggle to normalize and respect menopause
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Business
How social media ate news media’s lunch, and what to do about it
It’s a brave new world for news media. The advertising revenue that kept newspapers afloat has dwindled. Reporters are being laid off.
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Health
She needed answers about pregnancy. So she wrote them herself
So Angela Garbes did her own research and wrote a book about it
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Politics
A defense of liberalism in illiberal times
Adam Gopnik waxes philosophical on the historic arc of a high ideal
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Science
They defend the science. But who defends the scientists?
A philosopher fights back against post-truth and science denial
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Arts & Life
Student voices shine through Seattle Arts & Lectures program
Hear the results of writerly mentorship from area students
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Politics
‘More guns than people': America’s firearm culture
Author Thom Hartmann argues that the intent inherent in the concept of “a well regulated militia” was warped in relatively recent years, resulting in an epidemic of gun violence.