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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How Daniel Ellsberg learned to start worrying and hate the bomb
The acronym MAD stands for mutual assured destruction. The concept has been a cornerstone of U.S. military security policy since the creation of nuclear...
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Maria Hinojosa on due process, 'crimigration' and detention camps in the U.S.
Maria Hinojosa and her team at Latino USA have been reporting on how Latinos and Hispanics experience and impact the United States since 1992. That...
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Tom Hanks has two Best Actor Oscars, and it turns out he’s a writer, too
And now for something maybe completely unexpected. Tom Hanks wrote a book. The prolific actor credits writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron with encouraging...
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Listen to these Native poets read their work
As we begin another new year in these United States of America, it’s an opportune time to listen in to the creative voices of descendants of the...
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Khizr Khan on love, loss and the Constitution
Khizr Khan is an American citizen of Pakistani descent. He is perhaps most famous for the fact that he carries a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his...
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The da Vinci lesson: What really matters is being creative
Looking back at a year that was tumultuous in so many ways, this talk by author Walter Isaacson stands out as something that has almost nothing to do...
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Keep Christmas weird in Seattle: Listen to 'A Rogue's Christmas'
For the past eleven years the crew of Town Hall Seattle’s "Short Stories Live" series has presented a celebration of storytelling they call "A Rogue’s...
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Hillary Clinton: ‘I still find hope everywhere’
There’s a rap against Hillary Rodham Clinton: that she’s cold, robotic. That was certainly not the persona she presented on her visit to Seattle this...
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Prepare to be charmed by Isabel Allende, even in the midst of winter
Writer Isabel Allende has cast a spell on her readers since at least 1982, when she published her first major work “The House of the Spirts.” Her...
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What these Seattleites did in the first year of Trump (besides help write a book)
What’s a progressive citizenry to do? It’s been over a year since President Donald Trump was elected. Liberal Seattleites reacted to that event (they...