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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

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  • caption: GeekWire's Todd Bishop delivering packages in Amazon's new smart glasses.

    GeekWire tested Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses. How smart are they?

    You may see your Amazon delivery driver wearing something new soon: smart glasses. The retail behemoth is testing them out to see if they can boost delivery efficiency. GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop donned some Amazon gear and a pair of the new spectacles to see what's in store. He told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about his experience.
  • caption: "Humpy" reacts after winning the Salmon Run race for the first time during the 15th inning between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of baseball's American League Division Series Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Seattle.

    Seattle Mariners fans have Humpy fever. Is it catching?

    If you had gone to every Seattle Mariners regular season home game over the last couple of years, you would have seen that only one participant lost every contest, 167 times. That losing streak broke in a big way last Friday night in the 15th inning of the incredibly tense Game 5 of the American League Division Series. In the T-Mobile Park Salmon Run, Humpy came from behind, pushing past King Salmon, Sockeye, and Silver for the win. That unexpected victory started a cascade of Humpy-related happenings that seems to have no end in sight. To find out more, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked Seattle Times reporter Taylor Blatchford, who is writing about the phenomenon.
  • caption: The first test glass container that’s 7 feet tall by 4 feet wide was signed by Hanford workers and officials after it was poured. The plant will make thousands of these containers of low activity waste at Hanford.

    A long-awaited solution to Hanford's nuclear waste may be weeks away

    Earlier this month, it looked like a pivotal part of the effort to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington was going to be stuck in limbo. Plans to build an important and long-awaited radioactive waste treatment plant appeared to be put on hold, but then the US Secretary of Energy's Office confirmed the plant would be operational by Oct. 15. Hanford is one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States. It was established in 1943 to create plutonium for atomic bombs. Northwest Public Broadcasting senior correspondent Anna King gave KUOW’s Kim Malcolm this update.
  • 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.