Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Reporter
About
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is a general assignment reporter focusing on public health stories. Most recently Anna reported on COVID-19 and a panoply of pandemic-related topics, including personal protective equipment, social distancing regulations, health equity, outbreaks, vaccines and the state's vaccine rollout.
Previously at KUOW, she also reported on opioid overdoses and treatment, rape kit testing and prosecution of sexual assault, earthquakes and disaster preparedness, recycling, public toilets, bikini baristas, turmeric and childhood lead testing, homelessness, seaplanes, mental health, Sephardic Jews, the Washington State Convention Center, foster care, the Space Needle, the origin of the "Seattle Dog," and why the escalators at some Light Rail stations always seem to be broken.
Anna has expertise in investigative reporting and data analysis. She has a masters in journalism from the University of Missouri, and a bachelors in interdisciplinary studies from Global College (with a focus in international development and ethnic conflict.)
Her name is pronounced ANN-uh BOY-koh WHY-rock. Her last name is a hyphenated combination of her parents' last names. Boiko is Ukrainian and Weyrauch is German — though none of her close relatives have lived in either country for the last 120+ years.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., Association of Health Care Journalists
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
Sign here to avoid eviction but beware: You might be signing away your rights
Landlords say it’s a useful tool. Renters call it a predatory trick. This legal document seems like an easy way to avoid eviction, but it can backfire for tenants. Many don’t know what they’re signing away.
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KUOW Newsroom
Federal Way seeks to stamp out fentanyl fumes by punishing smokers
Federal Way is trying to clear its air of fentanyl smoke.
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KUOW Newsroom
Pierce County settles with Manuel Ellis’ family for $4M in lawsuit over police killing
Pierce County will pay roughly $4 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit over the killing of Manuel Ellis by police in 2020.
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KUOW Newsroom
Inquests into officer-involved shootings look very different now in King County
Today marked the first fact-finding inquiry into a police shooting in King County in four years following reforms in the process initiated by King County Executive Dow Constantine.
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KUOW Newsroom
Turmeric poisoned their kids. Four Seattle-area cases show gaps in lead testing
Turmeric has been identified as the source of lead poisoning in at least four Seattle-area families recently. Health professionals worry that many more cases haven’t been identified because of inadequate childhood lead testing in Washington state.
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KUOW Newsroom
Syphilis infections on the rise in Seattle area
This is a story about sex and one type of bacteria that loves it: Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis.
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KUOW Newsroom
A cautionary tale of teen fentanyl abuse prompts advice for parents and friends
'They were telling her, essentially, to hold the line, to cut off their son, and she didn't.'
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KUOW Newsroom
A Seattle teen quit smoking fentanyl. Every morning he thanks God he’s alive
“I spent a lot of time thinking that I was the cool guy,” he says, sitting on his parents’ couch in northwest Seattle. “But now I go get a shot in my butt every month and I go to AA, you know what I mean? It's humbling.”
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattleites reported hundreds of bias incidents and hate crimes last year. A small fraction made it to court.
Let’s start at the beginning of a case.
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KUOW Newsroom
Fentanyl is a great drug for cartels. But those blue pills are killing King County
Fentanyl pills are often called blues, and they’re on sale everywhere. It’s just gotten so easy to make and smuggle fentanyl that it’s flooding the illegal drug market in this area – and killing people – more than ever.