Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
About
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record. She's won awards for her interviewing, editing, and reporting.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Stories
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How Yola, Seattle's baby gorilla finally bonded with her mom
Last November, Woodland Park Zoo was excited to announce the birth of gorilla Yola. The birth was natural, as zookeepers had hoped – they didn’t...
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Swinomish Tribe takes a stand on dental care
Jeannie Yandel speaks with New York Times reporter Kirk Johnson about a new program bringing dental therapists to the Swinomish reservation in...
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Why this Northwest environmental organization is getting into affordable housing
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Gene Duvernoy, president and CEO of Forterra, and Estela Ortega, executive director of El Centro de la Raza, about why their...
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Creating an Oso archive: 'The rest of the world had moved on'
Jeannie Yandel speaks with president of the Darrington Historical Society, Scott Morris, who has partnered with a group of students from University of...
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Soldiers miss war. You would too, says Sebastian Junger
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Sebastian Junger, author of the new book "TRIBE: On Homecoming and Belonging," about why soldiers long for war and what...
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Miles of grief lead this runner to honor fallen soldiers
Mile one: “Oh my God, the babies didn’t stop crying for the last hour and a half.” Mile two: “I need to buy diapers, what am I going to make for dinner...
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Lindy West: From 'broken thin person' to badass lady knight
Jeannie Yandel talks to Seattle writer Lindy West about her new book, "Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman." In it West talks about how she found her voice,...
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How drag queens pulled a Seattle writer from a crippling funk
Seven years ago, Seattle TV writer Melanie McFarland was depressed. “It was like being under water,” McFarland said. “Or having an alien be inside my...
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Life After Mount St. Helens Took My Husband
Fay Blackburn of Vancouver, Washington, remembers what it was like when the world turned its attention to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980....
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We're number eleven! Seattle just middling in readiness for digital future
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Geekwire's Todd Bishop about why he disagrees with a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study that ranks Seattle 11 out of 25 American...