Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
About
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record. She's won awards for her interviewing, editing, and reporting.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Stories
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Lindy West: 'I'm reclaiming the term witch hunt'
Lindy West knows what she wants men to do next. And it doesn’t involve making shameful public confessions or warning about possible “witch hunts”...
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Why a horror movie can be like therapy
Jeannie Yandel wanted to know: Why would anyone want to scare themselves by watching horror movies? Isn’t there enough scary stuff in the real world...
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Who are the innovators who shaped Seattle?
Jeannie Yandel talks with Marcie Sillman about Bill Boeing, Nellie Cornish and other innovators who had a lasting impact on Seattle. KUOW's new project...
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College campuses can now respond to sexual assault their own way, on their own time
Sexual assault has been “a scourge on American (college) campuses” for generations, according to Vanessa Grigoriadis, the author of "Blurred Lines:...
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'Good Booty': The history of sex in American music
Jeannie Yandel speaks with NPR music critic Ann Powers about her most recent book, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American...
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How to be careful with your Hurricane Harvey donations
Bill Radke speaks with Amy Costello, founder and managing editor of the Tiny Spark podcast, about why you need to be careful with the donations that you...
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What does it mean that Seattle is now an Amazon company town?
Bill Radke speaks with Seattle Times report Mike Rosenberg about his article that shows how Seattle has become a company town for Amazon. Crosscut...
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Should Seattle tax foreign real estate investors?
Seattleites love to blame outsiders for skyrocketing housing prices.
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Tax on foreign buyers not cooling down BC's housing market
Jeannie Yandel speaks with CBC host Stephen Quinn about British Columbia's attempts to slow their escalating housing market. Quinn explains that there...
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When it comes to farming fish 'we have to get it right'
Jeannie Yandel talks to Renee Erickson , Seattle chef, author and owner of The Walrus and The Carpenter, and Barton Seaver , author, chef and the...