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
-
Choreographer Bill T. Jones on dance, life and 'a space that is a memory space'
"Art is going to save us, right?" Choreographer Bill T. Jones opens his talk. He says it’s not a laugh line. His answer is sobering. In the iconoclastic...
-
ICYMI: Listen in on this panel from Women’s March Seattle
The second annual Women’s March was celebrated in Seattle on January 20. Organizers say as many as 100,000 people attended. But those organizers had...
-
Seattle — you complicated, gorgeous, coffee-scented chimera — why do we stay with you?
As of the 2010 Census, 80 percent of U.S. citizens lived in urban areas. Human beings are drawn to cities for work, culture, camaraderie and hipster...
-
‘We will be heard!’ Voices from Seattle Women’s March 2.0
Tens of thousands of people participated in the second annual Seattle Women’s March. The day started with a rally of fiery speeches to warm up...
-
Carmen Maria Machado's 'The Husband Stitch'
There have been so many momentous days recently. Today, for instance, women around the U.S. and the world (and their allies) are participating in the...
-
Sure, things are stressful. But how’s the Constitution?
The political climate in the United States is marked by ultra-partisanship. So it’s a good time to ask, how’s the Constitution holding up? A recent...
-
Ijeoma Oluo: MLK and ‘an anger born from love’
This year will mark the 50 th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, the United States celebrates the birth of the great...
-
How Daniel Ellsberg learned to start worrying and hate the bomb
The acronym MAD stands for mutual assured destruction. The concept has been a cornerstone of U.S. military security policy since the creation of nuclear...
-
Maria Hinojosa on due process, 'crimigration' and detention camps in the U.S.
Maria Hinojosa and her team at Latino USA have been reporting on how Latinos and Hispanics experience and impact the United States since 1992. That...
-
Tom Hanks has two Best Actor Oscars, and it turns out he’s a writer, too
And now for something maybe completely unexpected. Tom Hanks wrote a book. The prolific actor credits writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron with encouraging...