Liz Brazile
Interim Online Managing Editor
About
As KUOW's Interim Online Managing Editor, Liz oversees the newsroom's daily web coverage and digital news strategy. She also edits and reports stories for kuow.org.
Liz is among 10 journalists selected by ProPublica in 2024 to undergo the outlet's rigorous Investigative Editor Training Program. She's under ProPublica's mentorship through 2025.
Liz joined KUOW in January 2020 as an Online Editor/Producer. Prior to that, Liz covered education for Crosscut/KCTS 9. She is also an alumna of YES! Magazine, WLWT-TV, and The Cincinnati Herald. Liz currently serves as Senior Vice President of the Seattle Association of Black Journalists. She has also served board terms as President and Secretary of the chapter.
Liz was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. A violinist, Liz originally started her college career thinking she'd become a music teacher. But after befriending a journalism major at the University of Cincinnati, she was inspired to pursue a career in news instead.
When she's not busy with the news, Liz enjoys roller skating, exploring new places, working out, and doting on her Yorkie.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English and conversational Spanish
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Professional Affiliations: Seattle Association of Black Journalists; National Association of Black Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors; and Ida B. Wells Society
Stories
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Arts & Life
On the count of 3...Go! Rapper Common surprises fans with dance solo at Seattle breaking competition
Amid his performance of "Universal Mind Control," which samples the 1982 electro hit "Planet Rock" — widely considered an old-school breakdance anthem — Common surprised fans when he erupted into an impromptu breakdance number of his own.
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Arts & Life
Seattle's breakdance scene is center stage again — but don't call it a comeback
B-boys and b-girls from around the world — and Seattle’s own backyard — took the stage at WAMU Theater Saturday night for the Red Bull Lords of the Floor breakdance competition, back for the first time since 2002.
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No charges for SPD officer who struck and killed Jaahnavi Kandula
The Seattle police officer who struck and killed a 23-year-old pedestrian while speeding en route to a 911 call last year won't face criminal prosecution.
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Arts & Life
Rapper Common talks 50 years of hip-hop and hopes for the industry’s future
Common is an Academy Award, Grammy, and Emmy award winning artist. The Chicago born emcee is a true hip hop icon with an award-winning career that spans decades. KUOW's Mike Davis caught up with Common ahead of his performance at Benaroya Hall on Monday, Sept. 18.
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Arts & Life
Seattle is rainy with unrelenting hills. How did it become a biking city?
Bike culture is as deeply ingrained in Seattle’s identity as coffee and Birkenstocks. But with our rainy weather and hilly terrain, Seattle — at least on paper — should’ve never become the biking haven that it is today. That’s the unlikely history that Tom Fucoloro, founder of the Seattle Bike Blog and author of “Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars," set out to explore.
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Politics
How a hug and a prayer took over Spokane’s mayoral race
Spokane’s mayoral office is technically non-partisan. But controversy surrounding an embrace shared between Mayor Nadine Woodward and disgraced former state Rep. Matt Shea underscores how politics are anything but missing from the race.
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A failed hotel shelter program left nearly 300 people scrambling for housing. Who’s to blame?
The Lived Experience Coalition rolled out a program last winter that worked directly with unhoused people, moving them into four hotel shelters across King County and Tacoma. But shortly after its launch, the program collapsed. Seattle Times Project Homeless reporter Anna Patrick joined Soundside to unpack the breakdown leading to the program's demise.
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Crime
Rudy Giuliani promised WA berry farmers an anti-Biden documentary. It never got made, now they’re suing
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Vice President Kamala Harris visits Seattle, promotes 'Bidenomics'
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Health
This psychiatric hospital shuttered in 1973. But patient descendants and community researchers keep its lore alive
There’s an overgrown cemetery nestled in the farmland of the Cascade foothills of Skagit County. It’s the burial grounds for Northern State Hospital, a long-shuttered state mental institution.