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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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...
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Woody Guthrie's love letter to the Columbia Basin rolls on 75 years later
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Greg Vandy about his new book, "26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promise Land in the...
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This cardboard box could save a baby's life
When infants die in King County, the medical examiner investigates. One hundred babies were found to have died of SUID – sudden unexpected infant death ...
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How the myths of 1950s family life are shaping politics today
Jeannie Yandel talks with author Stephanie Coontz about her updated and revised book, "The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap."...
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These kids sued Washington state for failing to act on climate change and won
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Aji and Adonis Piper, two of eight youth plaintiffs in the case, Zoe and Stella Foster vs. Washington Department of Ecology, and their attorney Andrea Rodgers.