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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Business
Jeff Bezos launches $2 billion homelessness, preschool fund
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Government
Pilot: Plane thief was in my cockpit year before absconding with jet
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Government
Sen. Murray slams Kavanaugh's Roe v. Wade email
The Roe v. Wade decision has been a key part of questions aimed at Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.
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Government
Light rail to West Seattle and Ballard could get way pricier
For West Seattle, the documents show it would cost $1.2 billion more to build a tunnel instead of using at-grade tracks. Other options would cost $300 million to $700 million more than the basic proposal.
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QFC will stop putting your groceries in a single-use plastic bag
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Sunday's smoke was just a whiff of what's ahead in Seattle area
Stay inside if you can. With wildfire smoke billowing into the Seattle area from a number of fronts, that’s the advice of the Puget Sound Clean Agency.
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Firefighter injured in Washington's largest burning wildfire
A firefighter is being treated at a Seattle hospital after being burned in wildfire in eastern Washington. Okanogan County fire officials said Brett...
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Environment
Crews near Bellingham load up live salmon to feed sick, young orca
An extraordinary effort to feed a sick, young orca got underway Friday morning in the waters west of Bellingham.
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Crews near Bellingham load up live salmon to feed sick, young orca
An extraordinary effort to feed a sick, young orca got underway Friday morning in the waters west of Bellingham.
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Don't believe your neighbors: Seattle's crime rate has dropped
Is crime in Seattle on the rise? Neighborhood blogs and local TV news shows include alarming reports that might make you think it is. But Gene Balk—the...