Lucy Soucek
Podcast Producer
About
Lucy Soucek is a podcast producer who works on THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a podcast about the wonder and resilience of nature. She's trudged through waist-deep sawgrass looking for pythons and planned reporting trips 5,000 miles away in Ireland.
Before KUOW, she was a producer at Orbit Media in NYC and an announcer/producer at Maine Public Radio. She has a graduate degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on longform narrative audio.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Booming: Seattle's 15-minute makeover, TikTokers fear ban, what's missing from your neighborhood
Who killed the 15-minute city? And what will it take to get it back?
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Booming: New 'mommy track,' Seattle’s housing makeover, cost of living quiz
More new moms than ever before are working, but what if flexible work just deepens long standing inequalities in the workplace?
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Booming: Tiny ferries, stripper bill of rights, movie quiz
Could a broken ferry system help fix our cities?
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Booming: Gen la(Z)y, vacant stores, pop-up shop quiz
Young people get a bad rap for refusing to go above and beyond at work. Is this just the latest battle in an endless generational war, or do young people really have less work ethic?
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Booming: Dorms for adults, Boeing in 'Jaws' territory, plus home size quiz
Seattle is running out of room. Could tiny, Tokyo-style apartments be part of the solution?
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A progress report on Washington schools
Washington’s education system has been through a lot in the past decade -changes in funding and the pandemic - and the Seattle Times Education Lab has been there to report on it all. Today, reporter Dahlia Bazzaz will walk us through these changes and what they mean for students and teachers across the state.
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Seattle has a new drug law. Now what?
Seattle’s new drug law is now in effect. It makes the possession and public use of narcotics a gross misdemeanor. But it also encourages law enforcement to coordinate diversion efforts: admit people into treatment programs before jail. Today we’re talking with Seattle Times staff reporter Sarah Grace Taylor about what kinds of options are out there for police if they see someone using drugs.
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A guide to ghosts in the PNW
It's mid-October — the air is crisp, the morning fog is thick, and Halloween is just around the corner. Which means, it's time to tell some ghost stories. Today, we're revisiting a conversation we had with local author Bess Lovejoy who wrote a book on where to find spots in the Pacific Northwest where ghost stories have been told, and retold.
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Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 2
How science is being used to try to solve what seems like a losing battle.
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Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 1
In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python is an invasive species that's close to triggering an ecological collapse. But not if these python hunters have anything to do with it.