Liz Brazile
Online Managing Editor
About
Liz has been KUOW's Online Managing Editor since 2024. She oversees the station's digital news coverage and editorial strategy.
Liz came to KUOW in 2020 as an Online Editor/Producer and was promoted to Deputy Online Managing Editor in 2022. Prior to that, Liz worked at Cascade PBS, YES! Magazine, WLWT-TV, and The Cincinnati Herald.
She's 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.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English and conversational Spanish
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Professional Affiliations: Seattle Association of Black Journalists (Senior Vice President); National Association of Black Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors; and Ida B. Wells Society
Stories
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King County has already seen 13 domestic violence homicides in 2020
King County has seen an uptick in the number and severity of domestic violence cases since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March. The number of domestic violence homicides in the county has nearly doubled since last year, with 13 people dead as of September 30.
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Child pepper spray case: Seattle Police accountability office finds no wrongdoing
The city's Office of Police Accountability has wrapped up five investigations into complaints filed against the Seattle Police Department amid ongoing protests, including a case in which a child was hit with pepper spray.
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The presence of wildfire smoke could have you feeling bad — and not for the reason you think
As Seattle residents have taken measures to keep wildfire smoke out of their homes, they say another problem has emerged: Increased carbon dioxide levels and decreased air flow in their homes.
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'Massive' cloud of wildfire smoke arrives in Seattle overnight
A huge mass of smoke from Oregon and California wildfires made its way through Western Washington overnight Thursday, blown in by shifting winds from the southwest.
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This is how hard it is to identify a Seattle cop
In Seattle, a police officer's "badge number" could be a unique identifier — or it could be a number on a randomly assigned badge. And even when the number does identify an individual officer, it can still be tricky to identify them using that alone
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Reports of bizarre menstrual cycles emerge after tear gas exposure from Seattle protests
Amid ongoing civil rights demonstrations in Seattle, protesters, journalists, and even people blocks from the action have reported abnormal menstrual cycles after being exposed to tear gas.
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Seattle police sergeant from car attack investigation has spotty ethics history
Sgt. Michael Tietjen, who is accused of driving an unmarked police vehicle onto a sidewalk toward protesters on Capitol Hill on August 12, has a history of ethics investigations and excessive force allegations, according to court documents and a series of 2007 reports published by the Seattle Times.
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Auburn officer charged with murder in 2019 police killing, testing new deadly force legal standards
Auburn Police officer Jeffrey Nelson has been charged with second degree murder and first degree assault in connection with the 2019 shooting death of 26-year-old Jesse Sarey.
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Denied anti-seizure medicine, a knee in the neck. Seattle protesters say they feared death following arrests
Protester Samantha Six says she had multiple, untreated seizures while in police custody and jail; Her husband, Damien Boyd, says a Seattle Police officer jammed their knee into his neck, preventing him from being able to breathe.
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Seattle schools will continue remote learning in the fall, could later implement outdoor education
After mulling over several iterations of a state-required plan for getting kids back to learning this fall, the Seattle Public Schools district will officially go back to online learning come September 2. The plan leaves the door open for some outdoor classes to occur during the 2020-21 school year, if the district moves to a hybrid learning model.