Noel Gasca
Producer, Soundside
About
Noel is a producer for KUOW’s midday show Soundside.
Prior to joining Soundside, Noel worked as an online editor/producer with KUOW’s web team. She’s also a proud graduate of KUOW’s RadioActive program.
Noel is an alumna of Emerson College and has interned at NPR member stations WBUR in Boston and WAMU in Washington DC. Originally from Lake Stevens, Washington, Noel is elated to be back in the Pacific Northwest and covering the people and places that make up the state she calls home. Noel has reported on labor and education.
When she’s not working, Noel enjoys perusing Seattle’s used bookstores, discussing the lasting legacy of Selena Quintanilla’s music with anyone who will listen, and spending way too much time fixing up her island on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: National Association of Hispanic Journalists, AIR
Podcasts
Stories
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In life and death, Tokitae the orca sparks a reckoning
In life, Tokitae the orca became a symbol to the humans who surrounded her; taking on a different meaning to each person. In her story "The Call of Tokitae", reporter Caitlin Gibson chronicles the orca's life and death through the people who knew her best.
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Which stories are going to be dominating your newsfeed in 2024? KUOW reporters sound off
Soundside reached out to reporters and editors at KUOW to share their predictions for what will dominate our newsfeeds, along with any resolutions they're making for 2024.
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Arts & Life
How to handle holiday tipping, dress codes, and trauma parties
As fun-filled as this time of year can be, it can also force a plethora of sticky situations and quizzical conundrums for us to deal with. Soundside has rounded up a panel of etiquette and relationship experts to answer your toughest holiday questions
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Arts & Life
'An invisible recession' is hitting Seattle's Hugo House
For decades, the nonprofit writers center Hugo House has been a place for writers to not just practice their craft - but find their voice. But Hugo House's future as an incubator for emerging writers is precarious, and the executive director says that reflects deeper issues in the art world.
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Environment
House cats love to hunt birds. Here's why that has biologists and conservationists worried
A study published this week in the journal Nature Communications found that free-ranging domestic AND feral cats eat more than 2,000 different species in the wild. And that has ecologists and biologists seriously worried.
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Health
Seattle Children's nurses call out workplace violence
Members of the Washington State Nurses Association say there’s been an increase in violence in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit at Seattle Children's Hospital and want to bring attention to the need for safer working conditions. KUOW reporter Diana Opong talked to Soundside host Libby Denkmann about what nurses in the unit have been experiencing.
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Amazon promises convenience for customers, but it's crushing some rural mail carriers
Last month, residents in San Juan County began complaining that Amazon packages were causing a major backup at post offices and delaying regular mail delivery. People reported going days without receiving some bills, letters, and packages.
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Community members give Denny Blaine Park play area proposal a dressing down
Typically, a new playground — at minimal cost to taxpayers — would be greeted with open arms by a community. But in this scenario, it’s not that simple.
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Business
What’s at the root of a growing rift between an iconic Woodinville garden shop and the downtown developer?
The situation in Woodinville has gotten messier than a vegetable garden after a bunch of rabbits moved in, and now, the city council and mayor are stepping in to try to bring both all parties back to the table.
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Environment
New culverts in Washington state cost $20 million each. The DOT needs to replace 400 of them by 2030
The Washington State Department of Transportation has a lot of very expensive projects it has to manage in order to keep people moving around, and legislators recently got some pretty massive sticker shock for a different project — one that’s aimed at improving the way salmon move around.