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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Clusters Of Unvaccinated Increase Measles Risk In Washington
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Paul Throne of the Washington State Department of Health about why some groups of Washingtonians decline to vaccinate against...
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Washington State Senators Target Campaign 'Dark Money'
Jeannie Yandel talks with University of Washington political science professor Mark Smith about "dark money" and how that fits into campaign financing.
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Seeing More Car2Gos In Seattle? It's Not Your Imagination
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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Using DNA To Catch Elephant Poachers
Marcie Sillman talks to University of Washington biology professor Samuel Wasser about how his lab uses elephant DNA to pinpoint where large ivory...
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Seattle Nurse Returns For Respite From ‘Complete Mayhem’ Of Ebola Outbreak
Most days, Seattle nurse Karin Huster woke up around 6 a.m. for a quick bucket shower and breakfast before walking over to the Ebola treatment unit in...
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UW Researchers Using 'BeastQuake' To Track Earthquakes
Jeannie Yandel talks to John Vidale who explains how local seismologists are harnessing the power of Seahawks fans to test new earthquake sensor...
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Local Professor On The World's First Computer, 'A Universe In A Box'
Jeannie Yandel talks with University of Puget Sound professor James Evans about the Antikythera Mechanism, which is believed to be the world's first...
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Crows Are Taking Over This Small Washington Town
Jeannie Yandel talks with John Marzluff, author of "Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, And Other Wildlife," about the...
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Nell Pickerell, A Trans Man From Seattle's Rough And Tumble Days
Seattle writer Knute Berger was combing through old articles when he spotted an unusual character: “A woman, dressed as a man, riding a bike recklessly.”
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Moratoriums, Sanctions And Background Checks, Oh My!
Jeannie Yandel talks with KUOW's Olympia corespondent, Austin Jenkins, about a few of the biggest stories of the year from the Washington State Legislature