Will James
Special Projects Reporter and ProducerWill James is part of KNKX's special projects team, reporting and producing podcasts, series, and other investigative and narrative projects.
He reports on ideology, covering how information spreads, how beliefs form, and how those beliefs interact with the real world.
Will created the Outsiders podcast, an audio documentary on homelessness that TIME called a "narrative feat" and one of the best podcasts of 2020. He also served as senior producer of the podcast The Walk Home, investigating the killing of Manny Ellis by Tacoma police, and co-hosted the podcast Transmission, about COVID-19 in the Pacific Northwest.
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Jevin West, co-founder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, talks about the ways generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content — could accelerate misinformation and cause confusion. -
During the Roaring Twenties — the Jazz Age — the second era of the Ku Klux Klan reached new heights, far more widespread than the first following the Civil War. How millions of people in the U.S. came to embrace the white supremacist group is the subject of Seattle author Timothy Egan’s new book “A Fever in the Heartland.”
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A leader of a white power prison gang organized an operation from Pierce County that supplied fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and other illegal drugs to the Pacific Northwest, law enforcement officials alleged Monday.
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A King County sheriff’s deputy remains hospitalized in critical condition as investigators continue to probe how an attempt to evict a tenant in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood ended in gunfire and the tenant’s suicide on Monday.
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Pierce County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man they say was holding a hand grenade while walking along train tracks just outside Tacoma Friday morning.
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Pierce County’s most powerful law enforcement officer, Sheriff Ed Troyer, has been acquitted of criminal charges of false reporting. His trial offers a preview of what’s to come.
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An instance from Officer Timothy Rankine's past brings new context to the events of the night Manny Ellis was killed.
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A community grapples with the fallout from Manny's case — and the movement that surrounds it.
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A critical decision changes Manny's case, and a new story of his death emerges.
