Dyer Oxley
Online Editor/Producer
About
Dyer Oxley joined KUOW as a web editor in 2020, handling day-to-day upkeep of the station’s website while providing editorial oversight. He also helms KUOW’s daily newsletter.
A newspaper reporter at heart, Dyer came to KUOW via various Seattle-area media — spanning talk radio, podcasts, and TV — where he covered the emerging opioid epidemic, transportation, local government, and the region's pop culture community (he argues the Northwest is one of the nerdiest places on the planet). You can count on him to keep up on the region’s many comic cons, science, and entertainment news.
Location: Pacific Northwest
Languages: English, Limited Klingon and Vulcan
Podcasts
Stories
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What Gov. Jay Inslee told his own family about COVID-19
"Washington's governor has banned large gatherings of more than 250 people. But what about going to the store? The coffee shop or neighborhood pub? This is what he saying to his own family.
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Coronavirus is already devastating small businesses in Seattle
Kim Malcolm talks with Jon Scholes, President and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the business community in Seattle.
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'Hope is not a strategy,' says Kirkland city manager of coronavirus response
As an illness spread through a nursing home in Kirkland in late February, City Manager Kurt Triplett says that testing was a key missing factor that left officials unsatisfied as they responded to the outbreak.
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'Volatile and unpredictable': Life Care speaks publicly for the first time since COVID-19 outbreak
The Life Care Center in Kirkland provided insight into the location where most of Washington's COVID-19 deaths have come from. It's the first time the company has communicated publicly about the coronavirus outbreak.
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Emerald City Comic Con 2020 has been postponed
Just days after announcing that the event would continue as normal, Emerald City Comic Con announced that it is postponing its 2020 event.
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Emerald City Comic Con will go on as planned amid growing coronavirus concerns around Seattle
Among the features certain to happen at comic cons -- fans, celebrities, comics -- is the infamous con crud. Just like flying in an airplane, it is inevitable that bugs will be spread at a these fandom events leading to attendees commenting lat
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Live blog: Coronavirus updates in Seattle area (Feb 29-March 2)
This post will be updated periodically with information about the coronavirus. Scroll down for older information. Top line information: *A man died on Friday of presumed coronavirus in Kirkland, Washington, across the lake from Seattle. He is the first documented death from a virus in the U.S. He had underlying medical conditions. *2 people from a nursing care facility in Kirkland tested positive for the novel coronavirus. *50 more people from that nursing facility are sick and waiting for results about whether they have the virus. *10 CDC workers from Atlanta flew to Seattle this weekend, bound for the nursing care facility in Kirkland.
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Roosters still cooped up in tiny Washington town after landslides
The birds who have taken sanctuary at Rooster Haus Rescue near Fall City have found themselves trapped recently.
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What are the true costs of going cashless?
Some modern customers can remember the days in line at a grocery store and seeing someone ahead of you take out the dreaded checkbook. That checkbook meant something. I meant more waiting as the person filled it out, signed it, handed it over for it to be inspected. Perhaps their ID had to be documented for extra security. It was a time-sucking pain. But some see using cash as the modern equivalent of this consumer pet peeve – good old green money. It turns out, cash is no longer king, it’s an inconvenience.
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This Seattle woman brews a cup of tea that tastes like the Red Wedding scene from Game of Thrones
Friday Elliott does not like The Beatles. To her, the music feels like sharp, poky grass. “We called it cutting grass as kids because if you run into it, it can give you paper cuts – it feels like that,” she said.