Ross Reynolds
Executive Producer of Community Engagement
About
Ross is executive producer for Community Engagement. His projects include the person to person conversation event ‘Ask A…’ and That’s Debatable: Amazon is Good for Seattle.
Prior to his current job Ross hosted The Record (2014-2015) and The Conversation, KUOW’s award winning daily news talk program (2000 – 2014).
Ross came to KUOW in 1987 as news director and in 1992 became program director. As program director, he changed the station's format from classical/news to news and yet more news.
He led KUOW’s coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999, which won a National Headliner First Place Award for Coverage of a Live Event.
Along the way, Ross hosted KUOW’s daily magazine program Seattle Afternoon (1980 – 1985); the award winning regional radio newsmagazine Northwest Journal that aired in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska; and a weekly public television interview program on KCTS Seattle called Upon Reflection. He is a frequent moderator for political debates and discussions in the Seattle community.
In 1991, Ross went on a journalism exchange to Tonga in Oceania where he interviewed the king. In May 2003, he was a Jefferson Fellow from the East/West Center traveling to Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.
In 2011 Ross graduated from the University of Washington with a Masters Degree in Digital Media from the School of Communication.
His pre–KUOW career included seven years as news director at community radio station KBOO in Portland, five years as news and public affairs director at WCUW in Worcester, Massachusetts, two years as music editor of Worcester Magazine and short stints as fill-in news director at KMXT Kodiak, Alaska and the Pacifica National News Service Washington D.C. bureau.
Ross has a cameo role in the documentary film "Manufacturing Consent," an intellectual biography of Noam Chomsky.
He is an honorary SeaFair Pirate. His pirate name is Rotten Ross.
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle's indie movie theater scene hangs on by a reel
“We were just flat out closed. Nobody. Nothing” said Jeff Brien, managing partner at Faraway Entertainment.
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The Record
December 17th | With Zoom classes and uncertain jobs, how do you offer restaurant training in a pandemic?
FareStart is working it out. New, laxer guidelines on school reopening alarm teachers. Teaching Native history in Washington schools. And this year’s final chat with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
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The Record
December 16th | Healthcare workers mark their calendars for a shot in the arm
After months of not being able to do the simplest things, like drink water at work, healthcare workers see the end in sight. A chat with the virology rockstar who led the nation’s clinical trial response. The view from the sweep that wasn’t at Cal Anderson Park, and a look inside religious festivals of light.
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Speakers Forum
Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens
‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it isn’t anymore.’
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Ask KUOW: How are state pandemic guidelines being enforced?
How are state guidelines on Covid 19 safety being enforced?
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Ask KUOW: How do I find online, what I heard on the air?
Wait, what was that I just heard?
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Ask KUOW: What's a think tank, advisory vote, and an inquest?
Listener questions.
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Week In Review
Wild fires, Russian hackers and the arrival of e-scooters, this week
Ross Reynolds reviews the week's news with tech reporter for the New York Times Karen Weise, journalist with The C is for Crank, Erica C Barnett, and publisher of The Washington State Wire, DJ Wilson.
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The Record
September 10th | Crows: there’s an app for that
A way for kids to get excited about crows, guided by husband and wife crow researchers. The court monitor of the consent decree steps down. And this week’s chat with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
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The Record
September 9th | Fire in the skies
With much of the West either ablaze or seeing bad air quality, a look at where we are in Washington. A look at the protests that became contentious Monday, with 22 arrests and several instances of police violence. Why aren’t we testing people who aren’t showing COVID-19 symptoms? And a chat with Margaret Atwood.