Caroline Chamberlain Gomez
Editor, Seattle Now
About
Caroline Chamberlain Gomez is the editor of Seattle Now, KUOW's flagship news podcast. She's produced and edited hundreds of episodes on the people and stories that shape Seattle. She created "Casual Friday," Seattle Now's Friday episode that performs best (almost) every week. She was also a lead producer on Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and Second Wave. She has a Master's degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington, and she applies a user-centered approach to her journalism and processes.
Previously she was a producer at KCRW and is a proud alum of UCLA's Daily Bruin.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, conversational German
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: The Society of Professional Journalists, Western Washington Chapter
Stories
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Zaki Hamid + Margaret O'Mara
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Zaki Hamid, co-host of KUOW's "Are We Going to Be Okay?" series and University of Washington history professor Margaret O'Mara.
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Seattle Now: Making the most of takeout
Restaurants who want to survive the pandemic have had to switch it up for take out. And a lot of them have gotten pretty great at it.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Keita Williams & Eric Rivera
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Keita Williams Founder and Chief Strategist of Success Bully and Eric Rivera, chef and owner of Addo in Ballard. Support the show by making a gift to KUOW: bit.ly/seattlenow
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Education
Seattle Now: Pod's in session
Seattle Public Schools students are headed back to remote class in just over two weeks. But without a formal plan from the district, some parents are thinking about alternatives. One idea: in-person "learning pods." Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka tells us about how some families are preparing.
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Seattle Now: Gabriel Teodros on KEXP's new lineup
Seattle’s renowned all-music public radio station is changing its lineup to bring more voices to its airwaves and become an anti-racist organization. KEXP DJ and associate music director Gabriel Teodros talks about the changes and why it's an important move in this moment.
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Seattle Now: Why does Microsoft want TikTok?
Microsoft says it will be done laying out an offer to to acquire the social media platform TikTok in the United States by mid September.
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Seattle Now: "I hope you find the fish"
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Angela King, host of Morning Edition on KUOW and KUOW's Casey Martin.
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Seattle Now: A 7 week battle with coronavirus
Reporter Anna King was in the middle of covering the spread of coronavirus when she became sick.
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Seattle Now: Everything is liquefying
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother and Rachel Flotard, musician and Artist Manager at Red Light Management.
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Seattle Now: You probably have a doomscrolling problem
Doomscrolling, or spending hours at a time reading bad news is becoming increasingly common.