Clare McGrane
Senior Producer
About
Clare is the senior producer for Seattle Eats with Tan Vinh, a food podcast from KUOW and the Seattle Times. She shapes the show from story selection to sound mixing, and works with the host and editors to bring a diverse set of guests on mic and engage with the show's audience.
Prior to Seattle Eats, Clare helped develop and produce the region's premier news podcast, Seattle Now. Her coverage spanned a variety of topics, but she specialized in covering the COVID pandemic and reporting on local governments. Before joining KUOW in 2018, Clare covered the health sciences beat at GeekWire, where she also produced the outlet's podcasts.
Clare grew up between the Seattle area and her family home in Ayrshire, Scotland. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2016 with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Journalism. Outside of work, Clare spends her time crocheting, bouldering, and playing a kind-hearted (if not very smart) Rider of Rohan in her Lord of the Rings roleplaying game campaign.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, conversational French
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle Now: Fighting fire with fire
For thousands of years, native tribes prevented destructive wildfires... by setting fires on purpose. Now prescribed burning could solve the West's wildfire problem.
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Seattle Now: Baby orca!
It's been a tough week, but there's at least one piece of news to celebrate: Orca mom J35, or Tahlequah, had her calf.
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Seattle Now: First day of school
Virtual school is back in session... so how did it go? And what's the etiquette for a Zoom classroom?
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Seattle Now: Covid goes to college
Washington State University is seeing a huge Covid outbreak, even though classes are all online. What can we learn from how colleges are tackling this challenge? Trish talks with NPR higher education reporter Elissa Nadworny.
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Seattle Now: Power shift in the gig economy
Covid has upended the economy, even the gig economy, and some of the changes are here to stay.
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Seattle Now: Murder charge for Auburn cop
King County is putting a new state law to the test by charging an Auburn Police Officer with murder. It's only the third time a case like this has been brought since the 1930s.
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Seattle Now: How we can fix the pandemic
The US response to the Covid pandemic was an epic failure. But it's not too late
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Seattle Now: Post office drama hits Washington
The Postal Service is locked in a political drama over access to mail in ballots. What does it mean for Washington voters?
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Seattle Now: Do NOT touch the armadillos
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with KUOW's Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong and the Seattle Storm’s Mercedes Russell.
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Seattle Now: Chief Best steps aside
Seattle will rethink its relationship with the police without Chief Carmen Best. She's retiring next month. What happens now? We'll talk about it with Omari Salisbury of Converge Media's Morning Update Show.