Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
As KUOW's Growth and Development reporter and co-host of KUOW's Booming podcast, Joshua's "growing pains" beat sits at the nexus of housing, transportation, urban planning, government and the economy. His favorite stories also include themes of history, technology, and climate change.
Joshua holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Washington. Public Radio is his second career; architecture was his first. He is proud of the many odd jobs he's held in his life, such as salmon fisher, author, bike courier, and bed-and-breakfast cook.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: he/him
Professional Affiliations: The Society of Professional Journalists, Western Washington Chapter
Podcasts
Stories
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Creditors Eye Detroit Museum's Art Collection
Detroit has filed for bankruptcy and the city's creditors have suddenly developed an appetite for fine art. Many cities don't own art collections outright:
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A Symphony Of Sirens
What is the sound of Seattle? Metro buses? Drum circles? Every city has distinctive sounds, and collectively, they form a kind of soundtrack beneath the
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Urban Food Foraging Goes Mainstream In Seattle
Cities like Seattle are really good at certain things. Like making widgets and designing spacecraft. Activities that take up a lot of space, like farming, are left to the farmers. For the most part, our food is trucked in from the Skagit Valley, shipped in from Florida, flown in from Chile -- places where land and labor are cheaper. But that divorce – between cities and farms – leaves cities vulnerable. All that movement of food between cities and farms relies on infrastructure. And infrastructure can fail, sometimes catastrophically.
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The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
Ever since the ballad of John Henry, the man who raced against a steam drill to see which could lay railroad tracks the fastest, we've had a fascination
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How A Blind Person Can "See" Using Echolocation
Brian Bushway is blind, but he says he can "see" just as well as anyone else using a technique called echolocation. Like a bat, he makes sounds with his
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Diary of A Bad Year: A War Correspondent's Dilemma
Kelly McEvers covers wars for NPR. She's driven partly by altruism, and partly by a feeling much less noble. There's something intoxicating about finding
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Invented Language Esperanto Not Quite Dead Yet
Friday, July 26, is World Esperanto Day. Today on KUOW Presents, producer Roman Mars told us about the history of the invented language Esperanto.
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Ira Glass On David Rakoff's Posthumous Novel In Rhymed Couplets
David Rakoff's new book comes out this week. It's a novel written in rhyming couplets. In the book, the main character is dying of AIDS. Rakoff wrote it
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Former High School Dropout Becomes WWU Neuroscientist In Race To Find Huntington’s Disease Cure
Sometimes, you’re just dealt a bad hand. Jeff Carroll was a high school dropout serving in the military when he learned his mother had Huntington's
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Weenie Royale: The Impact Of The Internment On Japanese Cooking In America
Many people have heard of the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. What’s less known is how the internment changed Japanese