Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
Joshua has been the "growing pains" reporter since 2015, documenting the region's growth and change. Joshua “took the long way” to radio, working in architecture firms for over a decade before pursuing his passion for public radio in 2007. By "long way," he means he's also been a writer, bicycle courier, commercial fisherman, bed-and-breakfast cook, carpenter, landscaper and stained glass salesman. He’s detailed animal enclosures to prevent jaguars from escaping the Miami Zoo. Once, while managing a construction site in Athens, Greece, he was given a noogie by an Albanian civil war refugee in his employ. “You do not tell those guys how to place stucco,” he said. All of which has no doubt made him the story-teller he is today.
Podcasts
Stories
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The things we do for that crazy roof on the former KeyArena
The arena at Seattle Center (that we used to call KeyArena) is being rebuilt to house Seattle’s new hockey team. There’s only one part the old structure that will remain: Its landmark roof.
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Are you a robot? Amazon patent reveals it’s getting harder to tell
You know those tests you have to fill out online to prove you’re not a robot? Robots may soon be better at those tests than humans are. That’s the takeaway from a patent awarded to Amazon this week.
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KUOW Newsroom
Sawant: This is the time to push for rent control
Rent control could become a campaign issue in Seattle this election. Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant wants to limit rent increases to the rate of inflation. That’s despite a statewide ban on rent control. The state ban would have to be lifted before landlords actually had to cap any rents.
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Prime(d)
When Amazon becomes your block watch captain
In this season finale of Prime(d), we go deep into how neighborhood social networks and surveillance are changing our behavior in our neighborhoods.
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Prime(d)
Will technology save us?
We hosted a debate with some big thinkers.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle backpedals on bike lane plans
The City of Seattle will cut over 25 miles of protected bike lanes and Greenways from its list of projects planned in the next 5 years.
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Prime(d)
Are you ready for Amazon to be the brains in your house?
On this episode of Prime(d), we talk with David Choffnes, Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northeastern University. He helps run a lab studying IoT devices.
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KUOW Newsroom
We made our own version of Alexa. Here's what we learned.
Virtual assistants like Alexa are dumber than you'd think. And unlikely to go "Skynet" on us any time soon.
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Prime(d)
Meet the coders who hear you yell at Alexa
As we say in the radio biz – the mic is always on.
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Prime(d)
I delivered packages for Amazon. Here's what I learned
The last mile of delivery is the hardest. And for the biggest internet retailer in the U.S., sometimes FedEx, UPS and the USPS aren't enough. That's why Amazon created an army of gig workers paid demand-based wages to deliver packages using their own personal vehicles.