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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Feminism: Meaningful change or media trend?
Eula Bynoe introduces herself as a doula, podcaster, mother, and full-time black woman. Her top priority to make feminism truly relevant as the word of...
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Would you give up flying for the environment?
If you thought it could help save the planet, would you give up flying?
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How the new tax plan will impact Washington state residents
Jeannie Yandel talks to Gary Grimstad, local accountant and part time lecturer in the University of Washington Foster School of Business about how the...
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One year later, two Seattleites reflect on leaving and staying
Bill Radke talks with Jen Petersen and Adra Boo about their respective decisions to leave Seattle (and the United States) and stay in the Puget Sound...
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A man who harasses women at work also 'probably won't promote them'
Bill Radke talks to the New York Times' Gender Editor Jessica Bennett about the fact that so many of the high-profile men who have been accused of...
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Isabel Allende in the midst of winter
Isabel Allende’s history with Seattle began with a dress. It looked like a butterfly, she lovingly remembered, and she flew all the way back to the city...
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We don't know what causes Alzheimer's or how to stop it — but there's still hope
Bill Radke speaks with Erica Farrell, clinical manager for the Washington chapter of the Alzheimer's Association , about what we know and don't know...
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John Hodgman thinks 'whiteness is facing a midlife crisis'
Jeannie Yandel talks to comedian and writer John Hodgman about mansplaining, white culture and his book, "Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches." Also: how the universe is not organized around Seattle.
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Lindy West: 'I'm reclaiming the term witch hunt'
Lindy West knows what she wants men to do next. And it doesn’t involve making shameful public confessions or warning about possible “witch hunts”...
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Why a horror movie can be like therapy
Jeannie Yandel wanted to know: Why would anyone want to scare themselves by watching horror movies? Isn’t there enough scary stuff in the real world...