Dyer Oxley
Online Editor/Producer
About
Dyer Oxley joined KUOW as a web editor in 2020, handling day-to-day upkeep of the station’s website while providing editorial oversight. He also helms KUOW’s daily newsletter.
A newspaper reporter at heart, Dyer came to KUOW via various Seattle-area media — spanning talk radio, podcasts, and TV — where he covered the emerging opioid epidemic, transportation, local government, and the region's pop culture community (he argues the Northwest is one of the nerdiest places on the planet). You can count on him to keep up on the region’s many comic cons, science, and entertainment news.
Location: Pacific Northwest
Languages: English, Limited Klingon and Vulcan
Podcasts
Stories
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'Cosplayers Unite!' Medical officials in Washington state solicit homemade face masks
As Washington faces a mounting COVID-19 crisis amid a shortage of medical supplies, new face masks for medical personnel are on their way — from cosplayers.
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Worried about a shelter-in-place order? Well, we're already doing it around Seattle anyway
Little by little, communities across Washington have shut down to combat the spread of COVID-19. With restaurants and bars boarded up, retailers closed, and grocery stores holding special hours for at-risk populations, some might suspect that the next order coming down from officials will be to shelter-in-place, forcing everyone to stay at home.
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Gun sales spike alongside COVID-19 concerns in Western Washington
Firearm sales in the region have sharply spiked, indicating that if there was a point in time when people began to get really nervous about the local COVID-19 outbreak, it could have been the start of March.
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What Gov. Jay Inslee told his own family about COVID-19
"Washington's governor has banned large gatherings of more than 250 people. But what about going to the store? The coffee shop or neighborhood pub? This is what he saying to his own family.
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Coronavirus is already devastating small businesses in Seattle
Kim Malcolm talks with Jon Scholes, President and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the business community in Seattle.
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'Hope is not a strategy,' says Kirkland city manager of coronavirus response
As an illness spread through a nursing home in Kirkland in late February, City Manager Kurt Triplett says that testing was a key missing factor that left officials unsatisfied as they responded to the outbreak.
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'Volatile and unpredictable': Life Care speaks publicly for the first time since COVID-19 outbreak
The Life Care Center in Kirkland provided insight into the location where most of Washington's COVID-19 deaths have come from. It's the first time the company has communicated publicly about the coronavirus outbreak.
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Emerald City Comic Con 2020 has been postponed
Just days after announcing that the event would continue as normal, Emerald City Comic Con announced that it is postponing its 2020 event.
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Emerald City Comic Con will go on as planned amid growing coronavirus concerns around Seattle
Among the features certain to happen at comic cons -- fans, celebrities, comics -- is the infamous con crud. Just like flying in an airplane, it is inevitable that bugs will be spread at a these fandom events leading to attendees commenting lat
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Live blog: Coronavirus updates in Seattle area (Feb 29-March 2)
This post will be updated periodically with information about the coronavirus. Scroll down for older information. Top line information: *A man died on Friday of presumed coronavirus in Kirkland, Washington, across the lake from Seattle. He is the first documented death from a virus in the U.S. He had underlying medical conditions. *2 people from a nursing care facility in Kirkland tested positive for the novel coronavirus. *50 more people from that nursing facility are sick and waiting for results about whether they have the virus. *10 CDC workers from Atlanta flew to Seattle this weekend, bound for the nursing care facility in Kirkland.