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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Parents brought kids to emotional post-election vigil in Seattle
People letting out raw emotion and looking for community. A new generation of Americans getting a crash course in politics. Hundreds gathered Sunday...
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SPU shooting: Why an insanity defense is so tough to use
The man accused in a deadly shooting 2014 attack at Seattle Pacific University has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. On the opening day of the...
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Fatal Legionnaires' disease breakout confirmed at UW Medical Center
The bacteria that causes deadly Legionnaires’ disease has been found in the water supply in part of the UW Medical Center, health officials said...
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Voices from Donald Trump's Everett rally
Fans of Donald Trump lined up by the thousands to hear him speak at a rally Tuesday evening in Everett.
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Test all blood for Zika? FDA runs into criticism in Seattle
Testing blood donations for the Zika virus doesn’t make sense for places like Seattle. That’s what Dr. James AuBuchon, president and chief executive of...
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King County's incredibly cheap answer to the EpiPen
One solution to the soaring price of EpiPens: Build a replacement that costs a fraction as much. Jim Duren of King County Emergency Medical Services...
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Why the discovery of planet Proxima b is worth crying about
The discovery of a planet that could hold life just a few light-years away is enough to make Alan Boyle teary. "When we look back millennia from now, we...
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Wine-tasting vs. local farming in Sammamish River valley
Seattle Times reporter Lynn Thompson tells KUOW's Kim Malcolm about how farmers and the wine industry are tussling over zoning along a small outpost of...
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Count 'em: 90 mountain goats in one photo near Mount Baker
That’s a lot of mountain goats – 90 to be exact. The aerial photo was taken in late July near Mount Baker by the Washington Department of Fish and...
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I'm sick of Seattle's heat and it's all Canada's fault
If you're dripping with sweat during this heat spell, you can blame Canada (kind of). Washington state climatologist Nick Bond told KUOW's Kim Malcolm...