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Kim Malcolm

Afternoon News Host

About

Kim is the local news host of KUOW's All Things Considered, airing from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays. Kim covers breaking and developing daily news, both local and regional, as part of NPR's afternoon drive time programming. She has covered the arts, municipal government, politics, and misinformation as part of KUOW's Stand with the Facts live event series, in partnership with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. She really enjoys election night coverage, in spite of herself. Kim started out in broadcast journalism in Calgary at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, before working at NPR member station KERA in Dallas and then KUOW. Kim spends most winters waiting for baseball season to start.

Location: Seattle and the Eastside

Languages: English

Pronouns: she/her

Stories

  • caption: This photo, taken Sept. 11, 2023, shows various Google logos when searched on Google. If government regulators succeed in forcing Google to spin off its Chrome browser business, it's likely to unleash drastic changes designed to undermine the dominance of the Google search engine.

    Is the Google antitrust ruling a ‘big whiff,’ or an advantage for rivals like Microsoft?

    In a closely watched antitrust case, a federal judge ruled this week that Google has to share search results and some data with rival companies. But the judge ruled Google does not have to sell off Chrome, its ubiquitous web browser. What could this ruling mean for our homegrown tech behemoth Microsoft, and other search engine rivals of Google? GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop looked into that and other questions in a new piece. He told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm what he found.

  • caption: Lynda Mapes on assignment with the southern resident orcas in Central Puget Sound.

    Environment reporter Lynda Mapes dove into Seattle’s Elliott Bay, and found some big changes

    It's peak tourism season in downtown Seattle. Residents and visitors have been celebrating the $800 million dollar makeover of the waterfront. Is the same true for residents and visitors under the surface of Elliott Bay? To consider that question, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out this week to environment reporter Lynda Mapes. The two took a shallow dive into Mapes’ most recent piece for the Seattle Times, "The vibrant world under Seattle’s new waterfront."

  • caption: Las Vegas Raiders coach Pete Carroll

    Seahawks v. Former Seahawks. Preseason football kicks off

    You know fall is around the corner when the NFL preseason begins. Thursday, the Seattle Seahawks will take on the Las Vegas Raiders in their first pre-season matchup. Coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Geno Smith will be there, maybe a bit awkwardly for Hawks fans, on the Raiders side of the field. Carroll is the only coach who was able to lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl title, and Smith helped them rack up winning records the past three years. To talk football, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out to longtime Seattle sportswriter Art Thiel.

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    Hit back or leave it alone? Canadians respond to new Trump tariffs

    No deal is better than a bad deal. That appears to be the consensus among political and business leaders in Canada, after President Donald Trump applied new tariffs on Canadian imports that aren't covered by a 2018 free trade deal. While other countries rushed to make trade deals, Canadian leaders determined they could not agree to one — yet. To catch up with how all of this is being processed in British Columbia, and some other topics, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to Vancouver-based journalist Michelle Eliot, who hosts the CBC weekday call in program BC Today.

  • caption: Aerial View of Bellingham, Washington including the waterfront redevelopment, downtown, and Mount Baker in the distance.

    Bellingham family moves forward after hate crime sentencing

    Washington state reports more hate crimes than most other states. We've ranked in the top five states since 2018, according to FBI statistics. In one case last summer, a 43-year-old man named Paul Bittner attacked an 11-year-old Bellingham boy who was walking back to school from a field trip. DeVante Blow is the boy's father. He talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about the case.

  • caption: In this file photo, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal talks with Libby Denkmann, host of Soundside, in KUOW's studio in Seattle on Nov. 6, 2024.

    Rep. Jayapal talks rescissions, protecting U.S. citizens from ICE, and the Epstein files

    Congressional Republicans gave President Trump a big win last week. The Senate and House passed his $9 billion rescission request along a mostly party-line vote. Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal represents Washington's 7th District, in the Seattle area. She talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about the rescission package, a new bill she sponsored last week, and other matters.