Clare McGrane
Podcast Producer
About
Clare produces KUOW’s news podcast, Seattle Now. She specializes in episodes on health, especially the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine, and occasionally produces the show’s Casual Friday episodes. She previously worked as KUOW’s Emerging Platforms Producer, where she was the primary product manager for new digital products and helped to develop, pilot and launch Seattle Now.
Before joining KUOW she was the health sciences beat reporter and podcast producer at GeekWire, and she holds degrees in journalism and creative writing from the University of Washington. Outside of work, you’ll find her rock climbing and playing the teenage sorceress Elspeth Margaster in her current Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday: 'Slightly normal in a completely abnormal place'
Seattle elementary schoolers are back in classrooms, but we're far from back to normal. This week we talk school madness, separation anxiety and one working mom who was called out big time for multitasking.
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Seattle Now
Rewriting the city's guns story
America has a gun violence problem. It’s an epidemic that hits every community, on some level. But how we view gun violence changes a lot depending on where it happens… and who it happens to.
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday with Chase Burns and John Moe
This week, we started counting down to wide-open vaccine eligibility, Amazon ticked off some workers by expecting them to come back to the office and Seattle got cast in a new Steven Soderbergh movie.
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Seattle Now
Shots in lucky arms
If you aren't eligible to get vaccinated yet, you can still try your luck at finding a last-minute leftover dose somewhere. Seattle Now producer Clare McGrane visited a city-run vaccination clinic in Rainier Beach to see how it works.
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday with Tan Vinh and Eva Walker
This week was a reopening bonanza: bars and restaurants increased capacity (and were tied to more Covid cases), Seattle gets its first in-person live concert this weekend, and we're even considering going back to the office. Plus: A vaccine hunting story straight out of a sci-fi movie.
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Seattle Now
Keeping small businesses alive
We're entering the recovery phase of the Covid pandemic. What does that mean for businesses who have spent the past year barely hanging on?
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday with Marcus Green and Isolde Raftery
Lots of vaccine news this week, plus conversations about how to respond to anti-Asian violence, an anecdote about pandemic dating and the demise of Aplets and Cotlets.
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Seattle Now
Sir Mix-A-Lot and Rachel Flotard regale us with stories from lockdown. (This interview is so good)
Seattle is home to some stellar artists who haven't played a live show in a year. On Thursday, some of them are pulling together to make sure the venues they love are still around by the time we're going to concerts again.
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday with Hannah Weinberger and Paige Browning
This week: Vaccinated people can officially hang out, Washington defends its title as America's best state and a local billionaire marries a science teacher.
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Seattle Now
Casual Friday: Pandemics anonymous
It's been a year since our first Casual Friday. Today, we reflect on the ups and downs of a year in Covidland, and hear some pandemic confessions.