Ross Reynolds has been co-host of KUOW’s daily news magazine The Record since September 2013. Before that he hosted The Conversation, KUOW’s award–winning daily news–talk program from 2000 to 2013. Reynolds came to KUOW in 1987 as news director and in 1992 became program director and changed the station’s format from classical/news to news. In 1998, he became program director and news director. KUOW’s coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999 won a National Headliner First Place Award for Coverage of a Live Event. Along the way, he hosted the daily magazine program Seattle Afternoon; the award–winning regional newsmagazine Northwest Journal that aired in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska; and Upon Reflection, the weekly public television interview program on KCTS Seattle. He is a frequent moderator for political debates and discussions in the Seattle community and has participated in journalism fellowships which have taken him to Germany, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tokyo, South Korea and Malaysia. His pre-KUOW career included seven years as news director at community radio station KBOO in Portland, five years as news and public affairs director at WCUW in Worcester, Massachusetts, two years as music editor of Worcester Magazine, and short stints as fill-in news director at KMXT Kodiak, Alaska, and the Pacifica National News Service, Washington, DC, bureau. Ross has a cameo role in the documentary film “Manufacturing Consent,” an intellectual biography of Noam Chomsky. His list of awards and honors is long, and includes First Place Call-in Program, Division A, Public Radio News Directors in 2012 for ‘Living in a White City,’ a conversation with callers about what it meant that Seattle is predominately white; the National Headliner Award First Place Award in the “Coverage of a Live Event” category for Battle in Seattle – breaking coverage of the World Trade Organization demonstrations on November 30, 1999; and 2010’s Best Public Radio Gabber from Seattle Magazine. He has two Edward R. Murrow awards and a Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Award, First Place for his coverage of the Newspaper strike in the early 2000s.