Jim Gates

As Senior Editor Jim edits feature pieces and helps guide staff reporters through their stories. Jim has helped to oversee and develop the investigative reporting efforts of KUOW with the mission to provide in-depth coverage of issues that affect Washington and the Puget Sound Region.

Prior to coming to KUOW, Jim worked as an editor on such national shows as Day to Day and Marketplace.   Jim helped develop and launch Weekend America where he directed the live broadcast and edited feature stories. He started his public radio career as a volunteer at NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles. Jim kept showing up at the station and eventually they actually started paying him. Jim moved to national programming when he joined the staff of The Savvy Traveler as producer of the interview and listener segments. It was on The Savvy Traveler that Jim first began editing and reporting.

Jim has won numerous awards for his editing work including the 2011 Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi Award (co-winner) for Public Service in Radio Journalism for an investigative series about workplace safety, First Place Beat Reporting (co-winner) from the Education Writers Association and Third Place for Health Policy stories from the Association of Healthcare Professionals (co-winner) for a collaboration with The Seattle Times.  The series  investigated health issues facing American soldiers as a result of wearing heavy gear loads into battle.