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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We quit eating chicken after hearing this unsettling interview
We take for granted living in a post-antibiotic world. Go ahead: climb that ladder to hang Christmas lights, get a stent to open a blood vessel, let...
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Ijeoma Oluo: ‘Now that we’re all in the room, how do we start this discussion?’
Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo has been widely recognized for some time now as a person who speaks sometimes uncomfortable truths about racism in...
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So much to do. But still make time for poetry
In a parallel universe, poets stand on street corners and recite for us. We stop what we’re doing and gather together with friends and strangers to...
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Choreographer Bill T. Jones on dance, life and 'a space that is a memory space'
"Art is going to save us, right?" Choreographer Bill T. Jones opens his talk. He says it’s not a laugh line. His answer is sobering. In the iconoclastic...
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ICYMI: Listen in on this panel from Women’s March Seattle
The second annual Women’s March was celebrated in Seattle on January 20. Organizers say as many as 100,000 people attended. But those organizers had...
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Seattle — you complicated, gorgeous, coffee-scented chimera — why do we stay with you?
As of the 2010 Census, 80 percent of U.S. citizens lived in urban areas. Human beings are drawn to cities for work, culture, camaraderie and hipster...
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‘We will be heard!’ Voices from Seattle Women’s March 2.0
Tens of thousands of people participated in the second annual Seattle Women’s March. The day started with a rally of fiery speeches to warm up...
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Carmen Maria Machado's 'The Husband Stitch'
There have been so many momentous days recently. Today, for instance, women around the U.S. and the world (and their allies) are participating in the...
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Sure, things are stressful. But how’s the Constitution?
The political climate in the United States is marked by ultra-partisanship. So it’s a good time to ask, how’s the Constitution holding up? A recent...
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Ijeoma Oluo: MLK and ‘an anger born from love’
This year will mark the 50 th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, the United States celebrates the birth of the great...