John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Remembering comedian Peggy Platt, a Seattle original
Over the last few years Speakers Forum has featured broadcasts of the Seattle theatre troupe Sandbox Radio . In that time we came to love the work of...
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‘Why are you entitled to be safe?’ the gun owner asked this teen
A couple of weeks ago, a fire alarm went off at Beatrice Cappio’s high school. “Everyone stopped to wonder, well, is there a shooter in the hall? Should we really leave?”
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Unwinding the shadowy backstory of the war in Afghanistan
Steve Coll is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winner “Ghost Wars,” is “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and...
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Why this psychologist is bullish on human progress
As crazy as the world seems sometimes, author Steven Pinker argues our ancestors would most certainly envy us. From life expectancy and standards of...
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Catch up on the action from Seattle's March for our Lives
This past weekend, students in hundreds of cities and towns around the country joined in March For Our Lives "sibling marches." Before the March For Our...
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Stage fright, be damned at Ignite Seattle 35
Ignite Seattle needs to be on your Seattle bucket list. But until you can make it out to one of their events, listen in to your fellow citizens’ brave...
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Dr. Temple Grandin on how minds work
Dr. Temple Grandin was diagnosed as brain-damaged at age two. Her mother Anna steadfastly pursued ways to understand her daughter’s condition and...
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Robert Reich reflects on the better angels of 'The Common Good'
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is famously small in stature—and has a penchant for short jokes about himself — but he has big ideas about democracy...
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Sugar-Man Steve Almond ponders 'Bad Stories'
If you’re familiar with the Dear Sugar advice column, you know who Steve Almond is. For the uninitiated, he was the first “Sugar” — a purportedly female...
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Is Amazon good for Seattle? 'That’s Debatable'
You don’t have to score tickets to Hamilton to know that debate played a crucial role in U.S. history. When it comes to charting the course of a nation,...