Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
About
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Stories
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Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris
An Earth Day message from Chris
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The Cougar Conundrum
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
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True grit: the wild wolverine
For the first time in 100 years, wolverines are back in Mount Rainier National Park. How did they get there?
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The Comeback Cat: Spain’s Iberian lynx
How did what used to be the rarest cat on earth leap a staggering 1000% in number in just 20 years?
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How to love a shark
There are 540 shark species in the world and 143 of them are endangered. Rachel Graham is their evangelist.
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The secret lives of giraffes and the woman who studied them
Anne Innis Dagg had a curiosity and love for giraffes that took her to South Africa in the 1950s. Little was known about them in western science at the time. Anne would change that.
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Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls
A decommissioned military base in northeast Oregon provides sanctuary for a recovering burrowing owl population.
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Portugal’s ecological utopia
A curious story of fires, Stone Age art, rural abandonment, and a mission to bring back an entire forest ecosystem.
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THE WILD: Season 4 Trailer
New episodes of THE WILD begin on Tuesday, January 18th.
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Telephone of the Wind
A favorite story from 2021, about a phone on a tree in Olympia’s Priest Point Park. You can’t use it to actually call anyone, but people use it all the time.