Clare McGrane
Senior Producer
About
Clare is the senior producer for Seattle Eats with Tan Vinh, a food podcast from KUOW and the Seattle Times. She shapes the show from story selection to sound mixing, and works with the host and editors to bring a diverse set of guests on mic and engage with the show's audience.
Prior to Seattle Eats, Clare helped develop and produce the region's premier news podcast, Seattle Now. Her coverage spanned a variety of topics, but she specialized in covering the COVID pandemic and reporting on local governments. Before joining KUOW in 2018, Clare covered the health sciences beat at GeekWire, where she also produced the outlet's podcasts.
Clare grew up between the Seattle area and her family home in Ayrshire, Scotland. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2016 with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Journalism. Outside of work, Clare spends her time crocheting, bouldering, and playing a kind-hearted (if not very smart) Rider of Rohan in her Lord of the Rings roleplaying game campaign.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, conversational French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Casual Friday: Vaccine Day
Happy V day! Everyone 16 and up is *officially* eligible for a vaccine, and with that flood of people comes vaccine flaunting, selfies, and even tattoos.
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Why the Amazon union failed
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama overwhelmingly voted against forming a union, but why the organizing push failed depends on who you ask. The answers have implications for workers and unions all over the country.
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Casual Friday: 'Slightly normal in a completely abnormal place'
Seattle elementary schoolers are back in classrooms, but we're far from back to normal. This week we talk school madness, separation anxiety and one working mom who was called out big time for multitasking.
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Rewriting the city's guns story
America has a gun violence problem. It’s an epidemic that hits every community, on some level. But how we view gun violence changes a lot depending on where it happens… and who it happens to.
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Casual Friday with Chase Burns and John Moe
This week, we started counting down to wide-open vaccine eligibility, Amazon ticked off some workers by expecting them to come back to the office and Seattle got cast in a new Steven Soderbergh movie.
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Shots in lucky arms
If you aren't eligible to get vaccinated yet, you can still try your luck at finding a last-minute leftover dose somewhere. Seattle Now producer Clare McGrane visited a city-run vaccination clinic in Rainier Beach to see how it works.
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Casual Friday with Tan Vinh and Eva Walker
This week was a reopening bonanza: bars and restaurants increased capacity (and were tied to more Covid cases), Seattle gets its first in-person live concert this weekend, and we're even considering going back to the office. Plus: A vaccine hunting story straight out of a sci-fi movie.
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Keeping small businesses alive
We're entering the recovery phase of the Covid pandemic. What does that mean for businesses who have spent the past year barely hanging on?
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Casual Friday with Marcus Green and Isolde Raftery
Lots of vaccine news this week, plus conversations about how to respond to anti-Asian violence, an anecdote about pandemic dating and the demise of Aplets and Cotlets.
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Sir Mix-A-Lot and Rachel Flotard regale us with stories from lockdown. (This interview is so good)
Seattle is home to some stellar artists who haven't played a live show in a year. On Thursday, some of them are pulling together to make sure the venues they love are still around by the time we're going to concerts again.