Posey Gruener
Producer, The Record
About
Posey coordinates on-air news coverage for KUOW's midday newsmagazine. Before joining KUOW, Posey worked at WNYC as a producer for The Takeaway, a live daily news program, and Studio 360, a weekly show about creativity, pop culture and the arts. She has also worked for The Moth, the live storytelling organization, and StoryCorps, the oral history radio project. Her freelance work has aired on Studio 360 and All Things Considered. Posey graduated Summa Cum Laude from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. She holds a certificate in writing from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and a certificate in audio production from the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, North Carolina.
Stories
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To understand suburban poverty, come to South King County
Emily Fox speaks with Brookings researcher Elizabeth Kneebone, co-author with Alan Berube of "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America." Kneebone and...
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How beer gave the City of Kent its name
When Kent, Washington, was first settled by Europeans, it was called Titusville. So why the name change? Because of beer. Or, to be more precise,...
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Reporter's notebook: Black Diamond, big developments, and sticking out your tongue
Bill Radke speaks with KUOW reporters Joshua McNichols and Carolyn Adolph about what they learned from their time reporting in Black Diamond for KUOW's...
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This ghost town used to be home to 1,000. Now it's just ruins
If this ghost town had a mayor, it would be Don Mason. Back in the 1970s, Mason was hiking when he stumbled on evidence of a town called Franklin. He’d...
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How should communities respond to development?
Bill Radke speaks with Kristen Bryant, Dennis Box and Johna Thomson about the controversy surrounding a planned development in Black Diamond. Bryant is...
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Facing inevitable development, this woman chooses to accept it
Bill Radke speaks with Black Diamond resident Johna Thomson about a planned development that will quadruple the size of her town and why she thinks...
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Black Diamond's development story tells us 'everything about ourselves'
Bill Radke speaks with Dennis Box, editor of the Enumclaw Courier-Herald, about what he's learned in his years covering the struggle over development in...
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In this town, the coal company used to be boss — and landlord, doctor and grocer, too
Bill Radke speaks with Leonard Garfield, executive director of the Museum of History and Industry, about what it was like to live in Black Diamond,...
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How a 4,000 person town feels about getting 15,000 new neighbors
Residents of Black Diamond, Washington tell KUOW Producer Posey Gruener about their hometown and what they think of a planned development that will...
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This woman is fighting to save her hometown from developers. Some townsfolk wish she wouldn't
Bill Radke speaks with Kristen Bryant, member of the development watchdog group Save Black Diamond , about why she continues to fight a near-inevitable...