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Dyer Oxley

Online Editor/Producer

About

Dyer Oxley joined KUOW as a web editor in 2020, handling day-to-day upkeep of the station’s website while providing editorial oversight. He also helms KUOW’s daily newsletter.

A newspaper reporter at heart, Dyer came to KUOW via various Seattle-area media — spanning talk radio, podcasts, and TV — where he covered the emerging opioid epidemic, transportation, local government, and the region's pop culture community (he argues the Northwest is one of the nerdiest places on the planet). You can count on him to keep up on the region’s many comic cons, science, and entertainment news.

Location: Pacific Northwest

Languages: English, Limited Klingon and Vulcan

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Stories

  • caption: A sample of the day's baked goods at Lazy Cow Bakery, which not only serves up vegan treats, it also uses its proceeds to fund a local mutual aid project.

    Your dollars, your values: Today So Far

    A vegan bakery with a bigger purpose. Rudy Giuliani is coming to town. And while Covid cases decline in western Washington, hospitalizations are up on the east side of the state. This post originally appeared in KUOW's Today So Far newsletter for Jan. 26, 2022.
  • caption: Brodie Smith, a Captain with Vashon Island Fire & Rescue, administers a Covid-19 test on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, in the parking lot of the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center along Southwest Campus Drive in Federal Way.

    Omicron's stealthy subvariant: Today So Far

    From "Stealth Omicron" to how stagnant air should affect our pandemic decision making. This post originally appeared in KUOW's Today So Far newsletter for Jan. 25, 2022.

  • caption: Fog and pollution hover low over western Washington as the region was under a stagnant air advisory in late January 2022.

    Smell that? Air stagnation advisory for western Washington

    If you feel the air getting a little funky over the next few days, it’s most likely you. To be more accurate — it’s us. Most of western Washington is under an air stagnation advisory until Wednesday. That means the airflow common to the region is on pause for now, leaving the air to sit around, closer to the ground.

  • caption: Registered nurse Estella Wilmarth tends to a patient in the acute care unit of Harborview Medical Center, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is deploying 100 members of the state National Guard to assist four overcrowded emergency departments at hospitals in Everett, Yakima, Wenatchee and Spokane, and that testing teams will be based at hospitals in Olympia, Richland, Seattle and Tacoma.

    Today So Far: Time for some Covid context

    We've been getting punched in the gut for a couple years — by a coronavirus right, then a left jab from Delta. Now, we're getting slapped in the face by Omicron, knocking out our hospitals, supply chains, classes, and other services. Would you rather be punched in the gut or slapped in the face? Answer: It doesn't matter; either way, we're getting beat up.

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    Affordability issues don't just plague Seattle: Today So Far

    A few years ago, I was sitting in my car, key in the ignition, and staring back at this church while having a debate with myself. At the time, I was a newspaper reporter living in, and covering, Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap. I was assigned to cover a charity event offering free clothes, haircuts, and a massive food bank. Such events are quite common in our region. My interviews were done and I got my photos, fit for print. But I found it difficult to leave. Eventually, I walked back in. Because despite stepping into the scene as a reporter, I, too, needed food.