Liz Jones
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 2006
Liz reports on immigration and emerging communities for KUOW. Her work covers issues within our region’s growing immigrant and refugee populations, as well as stories connected to minority groups with a longer history in the area.
She comes to KUOW after several years at an online news startup, which was later bought by Oxygen Media in New York. Her last position there was health editor for the network’s website.
Liz has also lived in Spain and Peru and speaks Spanish. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a degree in communications.
Liz’s work for KUOW has taken her to Mexico and India. Both those reporting trips produced award-winning documentaries. In 2009, Liz received a regional Murrow award for a documentary about indigenous Mexicans who migrate to the Seattle area. In 2014, she won a national Gracie award and RTNDA’s Kaleidoscope Award for a series that focused on immigration-related links between India and the Puget Sound region.
Her work has also been heard on national shows including NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now, PRI's The World, Latino USA, Marketplace, The Takeaway and BBC News Service.
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Nearly 25,000 immigrants and refugees in Washington state could be directly affected by an order signed last week (picture SafeCo Field almost half-full).… -
The so-called Muslim travel ban may go beyond just stopping people from certain countries at the airport.Seattle attorneys working with immigrants and… -
Alaa Al Halabi's big sister was supposed to move here on Monday. But President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travelers from seven… -
This week was meant to be a reunion for the Al Halabi family. They’re Syrian refugees who live just south of Seattle. Two grown children, still in Turkey,… -
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Syrian families in Washington state are devastated to learn about a new ban on fellow refugees seeking to come here.President Donald Trump signed an… -
Every day, newly arrived refugees just show up at Marwa Sadik’s office, at the Iraqi Community Center in Kent. Many are Iraqi, like her. Or from Syria,… -
Bill Radke speaks with KUOW reporter Liz Jones about the potential fallout from President Trump's upcoming immigration executive order. The order will…
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Update: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says Seattle is willing to risk money to stick to its principles.Six days in to his presidency, Donald Trump made good on… -
“We’re going to build a wall,” President Donald Trump said at his first White House press conference. Given the controversial talking point from his…
