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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The Record
This is the most popular funeral song in the world right now
"It was really the gateway song for funerals away from ceremonies that were purely religious," says UK-based writer Emily Mackay.
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The Record
April 10th | What song do you want played at your funeral?
The final outro. A therapist on her therapist. And how chasing bears through the woods led to finding a life’s calling.
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The Record
April 9th | Bellevue's mayor is ready to welcome Amazon home
Bellevue Mayor John Chelminiak is welcoming Amazon back "home," to the place where Jeff Bezos founded the company, in his garage. We talk about what the influx of jobs means. We also talk to King County Executive Dow Constantine about safe consumption sites, mental health, and homelessness. Plus: Mary Robertson tells us about her book, "Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity."
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This capitalist had his doubts about capitalism.
He create a way for average people to invest in the stock market, but remained a critic of capitalism until his dying day.
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The Record
'Homelessness is now a billion-dollar industry,’ says this Seattle conservative
Filmmaker Chris Rufo spoke with KUOW's Ross Reynolds about his views on Seattle's approach to the homelessness crisis.
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Week In Review
This week we’re wheeling the news out to you
Ross Reynolds reviews the week’s news with former Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna, former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and Geekwire’s Civic editor Monica Nickelsburg.
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The Record
A journalist on the wild business schemes to avoid climate change catastrophe
The threat of warmer temperatures is pushing entrepreneurs to come up with more schemes.
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The Record
The upside of climate change? And bringing teen mental health out of the shadows
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Seattle used to be vice, cops and corruption. Rick Anderson was there to cover it.
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The Record
February 20th | From the bench to the hot seat
We put our questions (and some of your own) to two King County Judges. How long is this state of emergency likely to stand? How might compassion be harming the response to the city’s homelessness problem. And: what do you imagine about the Seattles that might have been?