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Kim Malcolm

Afternoon News Host

About

Kim is the local news host of KUOW's All Things Considered, airing from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays. Kim covers breaking and developing daily news, both local and regional, as part of NPR's afternoon drive time programming. She has covered the arts, municipal government, politics, and misinformation as part of KUOW's Stand with the Facts live event series, in partnership with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. She really enjoys election night coverage, in spite of herself. Kim started out in broadcast journalism in Calgary at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, before working at NPR member station KERA in Dallas and then KUOW. Kim spends most winters waiting for baseball season to start.

Location: Seattle and the Eastside

Languages: English

Pronouns: she/her

Podcasts

Stories

  • caption: A cloud of smoke rises high in the air following an explosion at Whatcom Creek on June 10, 1999.

    ‘His eyes were as big as saucers.’ Remembering the Whatcom Creek explosion

    "It's not an easy story to tell." That's the way host Chris Morgan introduces a recent episode of his podcast "The Wild." The focus is a terrible accident that occurred 26 years ago, on June 10, 1999, in Bellingham, Washington. The Olympic Pipeline explosion killed three boys and destroyed a large swath of the Whatcom Creek Watershed. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to Morgan about what happened and the recovery process.
  • caption: Senator Patty Murray speaks to a crowd on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, during the Washington Democrats election night party at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle.

    Sen. Murray defends her shutdown stance amid looming health care cost increases

    Congress is back at work after the longest federal government shutdown ever that was triggered when Senate Democrats refused to approve a spending plan amid a standoff over expiring health care subsidies. Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what happened and what comes next.
  • caption: A Red-throated Loon family shelters in a small pond in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area.

    A visit to the pristine Western Arctic, which faces gas and oil drilling

    Lynda Mapes, the former Seattle Times environment reporter, made a trip recently to the Western Arctic, a vast region in the northernmost part of North America. It’s an area that the Trump administration plans to open for oil and gas drilling. Mapes talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what she experienced on that trip.
  • caption: The sign at Seattle City Hall.

    Will Seattle's election solidify its centrist shift, or move the city back to the left?

    The hours are ticking down for voters to get their ballots in for the November election. Last year at this time, there was a lot going on nationally and not so much locally. That script flipped this year. To talk about what's happening in Seattle races and measures, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out to Seattle Times staff reporter David Kroman.
  • caption: GeekWire's Todd Bishop delivering packages in Amazon's new smart glasses.

    GeekWire tested Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses. How smart are they?

    You may see your Amazon delivery driver wearing something new soon: smart glasses. The retail behemoth is testing them out to see if they can boost delivery efficiency. GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop donned some Amazon gear and a pair of the new spectacles to see what's in store. He told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about his experience.
  • caption: "Humpy" reacts after winning the Salmon Run race for the first time during the 15th inning between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of baseball's American League Division Series Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Seattle.

    Seattle Mariners fans have Humpy fever. Is it catching?

    If you had gone to every Seattle Mariners regular season home game over the last couple of years, you would have seen that only one participant lost every contest, 167 times. That losing streak broke in a big way last Friday night in the 15th inning of the incredibly tense Game 5 of the American League Division Series. In the T-Mobile Park Salmon Run, Humpy came from behind, pushing past King Salmon, Sockeye, and Silver for the win. That unexpected victory started a cascade of Humpy-related happenings that seems to have no end in sight. To find out more, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked Seattle Times reporter Taylor Blatchford, who is writing about the phenomenon.
  • caption: The first test glass container that’s 7 feet tall by 4 feet wide was signed by Hanford workers and officials after it was poured. The plant will make thousands of these containers of low activity waste at Hanford.

    A long-awaited solution to Hanford's nuclear waste may be weeks away

    Earlier this month, it looked like a pivotal part of the effort to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington was going to be stuck in limbo. Plans to build an important and long-awaited radioactive waste treatment plant appeared to be put on hold, but then the US Secretary of Energy's Office confirmed the plant would be operational by Oct. 15. Hanford is one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States. It was established in 1943 to create plutonium for atomic bombs. Northwest Public Broadcasting senior correspondent Anna King gave KUOW’s Kim Malcolm this update.