Patricia Murphy
Host
About
Patricia Murphy is an award-winning radio journalist who has covered justice, public health, military and veterans affairs for 20 years. She’s currently the host of KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
Her reporting has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Award for a 2005 documentary on IV drug use, and an Excellence in Health Care Journalism Award from the Association of Healthcare Journalists for a 2011 collaboration with the Seattle Times about chronic orthopedic injuries in the military.
A 2018 series focusing on narratives of young people who carry guns won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation. She’s also a member of the Dart Society -- a network of journalists who cover trauma, conflict and social injustice.
Patricia is a graduate of Boston’s Emerson College and a native of Clifton, New Jersey, where her first job was delivering The Herald News on her bicycle.
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday: 'Do I have to pull a busboy aside?'
A top Seattle chef's bad behavior catches up with him. Amazon realizes it could actually run out of warehouse workers. And murder hornets try to replace crows as nature's top local menace.
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Seattle Now
Amazon's existential problem
Amazon's success has come from its obsessive focus on customers. But that focus is causing an existential problem for the company — and its huge force of hourly workers.
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Seattle Now
Trans identity in the Old West
Our popular image of the American West is that the cowboys were the heroes, Native Americans were the villains, women were frail and treated like property and trans people didn't even exist. Except, of course they did.
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Seattle Now
'We have to stop celebrating these frickin' chefs'
One of the city's biggest big-deal chefs is taking a step back after a Seattle Times investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment against him. We talk with Melissa Miranda, chef and owner of Beacon Hill's Musang about how the industry needs to change.
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Seattle Now
When is the pandemic over?
Seattle is 70% vaccinated, the state is fully reopening in just a few weeks and Covid cases and deaths are at their lowest point locally in almost a year. Things are looking up. But when can we say the pandemic is finally over?
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday: 'Alexa, rescue me from outer space'
One Washingtonian wins a quarter-million dollars in the state's first vaccine lottery, assuming they pick up the phone. Jeff Bezos surprises his brother with the gift of suborbital flight. And it's baby crow flight school season in Seattle again.
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Seattle Now
A worker shortage could put the city's restaurants in the weeds
Seattle restaurants are weeks away from a green light to fully reopen for business... if they can find enough cooks, waitstaff and bartenders. We talk about the labor shortage that's hitting the city’s food scene with Seattle Times business writer Paul Roberts.
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Seattle Now
Why crows are dive bombing unsuspecting Seattleites
Seattle tends to have more crows than the average U.S. city. Mostly we get along fine, but it's the time of year when crows will dive bomb unsuspecting passers by. We head to Seward Park with a crow expert to find out why.
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Seattle Now
12th & Pine
A year after CHOP, the barricades are gone but Seattle's fight for equal justice is still around. We talk with Marshall Hugh, frontman of the Marshall Law Band, about their album chronicling last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.
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Seattle Now
Seattle Now: Why vaccine incentives work
Starting tomorrow, you could win a cool $250,000 from the state... assuming you're vaccinated, of course. Today we ask: Why do these vaccine lottery programs work?