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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Washington's longstanding love story with craft beer
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Kendall Jones, from the Washington Beer Blog, and Robyn Schumacher, co-owner and brewer at Stoup Brewing in Ballard, about...
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What it's like to play on the Seattle Majestics, the women's tackle football team
Jeannie Yandel speaks with two members of the undefeated women’s tackle football team the Seattle Majestics . Elisha Edlen and Mackenzie Tolliver...
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Local growers gamble big on Cosmic Crisp apples
Jeannie Yandel speaks with NPR food reporter Dan Charles about a new apple variety coming to Washington state known as the Cosmic Crisp. Washington...
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Don't read this if you're driving
Jeannie Yandel talks to Austin Jenkins, KUOW's Olympia correspondent, about the distracted driving bill that lawmakers have been working on this session...
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Where do you find sunshine close to Seattle?
Jeannie Yandel speaks with KUOW's Morning Edition host Emily Fox about a question she is trying to answer as part of our Local Wonder series. The...
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Are you a fan or a superfan?
Jeannie Yandel talks with Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron Glazer about what it takes to be a superfan. Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron Glazer are co-authors of...
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Puget Sound businesses want to get us to space and/or Portland faster
Jeannie Yandel talks to Alan Boyle of Geekwire about the possibility of taking a hybrid, electric plane for short regional trips and Jeff Bezos' dream...
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The government could be filing your taxes for you
Jeannie Yandel talks with ProPublica senior reporting fellow Jessica Huseman about the prefilled tax filing system and why we don't have this system in...
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This UW professor is tracking the rise of disinformation
Jeannie Yandel talks to Kate Starbird about her research on how "false flag" rumors are spread on Twitter after a crisis and how they connect with ...
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Seattle's changing fast, but its 'ghosts' are still here
Jeannie Yandel talks with Jaimee Garbacik, author of Ghosts of Seattle Past , about how quickly the city is changing, and why it's important to remember...