Monica Nickelsburg
AI & Economy Reporter
About
Monica Nickelsburg covers artificial intelligence, tech, and the local economy in the Pacific Northwest.
Monica came to KUOW in 2023. Before that, she spent six years covering the intersection of technology and politics for GeekWire and worked as a digital producer for The Week.
Monica grew up in Los Angeles and got her B.A. in Journalism and History from New York University before landing in Seattle.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Jeff Bezos, other tech leaders congratulate Trump on ‘extraordinary political comeback’
Gone are the days when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joked about sending Donald Trump to the moon on a rocket to keep him out of the White House.
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Can buildings learn?
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Boeing, my dad, and Airplane Economics 101
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The risky business of airplanes
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Seattle is minting millionaires by the thousands
About 1 in every 14 Seattleites are millionaires, making it second only to the Bay Area for “millionaire density.”
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Why free money makes you more likely to get a job
Guaranteed basic income is an anti-poverty policy gaining traction in Washington cities. Tacoma just started its second basic income pilot, on the heels of a separate King County experiment. KUOW’s economy podcast, Booming, sat down with Natalie Foster, the architect of more than 130 basic income pilots across the country to understand a surprising finding from King County’s basic income experiment, and what it means for the policy more broadly.
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Microsoft’s carbon emissions surge despite goal of becoming ‘carbon negative’ by 2030
Microsoft latest sustainability report card, released Wednesday, reveals a sobering reality: the artificial intelligence revolution is undercutting the tech industry’s efforts to decarbonize.
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The solution to our struggling power grid could be hiding in your closet
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What’s sending first-generation electric cars to an early grave?
A growing number of early electric car adopters are scrapping or replacing their cars when batteries that are no longer under warranty go haywire.
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What's sending first gen electric cars to an early grave