Gil Aegerter
About
Gil edits feature pieces and helps guide staff reporters through their stories. He previously served as interim digital director and online managing editor at KUOW. Before that he spent seven years with NBCNews.com, where he was variously a senior editor, editor-producer and features editor. He also worked 25 years as a newspaper editor in Anchorage, Alaska, San Diego, Wilmington, N.C., and Seattle. He also was a freelance researcher for NBC Olympics for the Games in Atlanta; Sydney, Australia; Salt Lake City; Athens; and Torino, Italy. He is a graduate of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, with a degree in photojournalism.
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
Wildfire smoke billows into Seattle area with flurry of 911 calls
Smoke from wildfires east of the Cascades flowed into the Puget Sound region on late Monday afternoon.
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KUOW Newsroom
New school year amid pandemic: Is Washington state ready to start?
Tens of thousands of students across the state are starting the new school year – and almost all of them will be taking classes remotely, at least for the foreseeable future. Political analysts C.R. Douglas and Joni Balter join KUOW's Angela King to discuss.
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South Dakota governor slams Seattle at RNC and Durkan hits back
Mayor Jenny Durkan says a speaker at the Republican National Convention has Seattle all wrong.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Black Lives Matter, ACLU say Seattle Police violated court order with violence in protests
Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County and the ACLU of Washington are asking a federal judge to hold the city of Seattle in contempt of court over police use of force over the weekend against people protesting racial injustice.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
More federal agents sent to Seattle. Mayor Durkan says the city wasn't told in advance
The revelations about their presence in the Seattle area come amid an ongoing clash between protesters and federal agents stationed in Portland since earlier this month.
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Bothell police officer killed in shooting after car chase
A Bothell police officer was killed and another injured when a shootout broke out during a traffic stop, authorities said early Tuesday.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Seattle Mayor Durkan calls for City Council to investigate Sawant
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wants the City Council to investigate Councilmember Kshama Sawant over her use of city resources and her participation in protests against police brutality, which led to brief occupation of City Hall and disclosure of the mayor’s home address.
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KUOW Newsroom
1 teen dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Seattle's CHOP
One man is dead and another in critical condition after a shooting early Monday morning in Capitol Hill Organized Protest Zone.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Rein in police, city council members tell Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan
Seattle City Council members Lisa Herbold, Lorena Gonzalez, Teresa Mosqueda and Tammy Morales have joined other elected officials in calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan to order Seattle police to de-escalate their response to the protests.
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King County, family of teen killed during botched sting operation reach $2.25 million settlement
King County on Monday reached a settlement with the family of a 17-year-old youth shot to death by sheriff's deputies in 2017.