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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After a week of tragedy and racial tensions, Sunday church services gave people a place to talk about it, especially within black congregations in the… -
An appeals court in Seattle heard arguments Thursday in a far-reaching immigration case. The central question is whether minors who face deportation…
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If this house could talk, what stories would it tell?About the Irish-American couple that first owned it?And the Japanese family sent to an internment…
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Immigrants and advocates around the Seattle area say their fight is far from over. The recent Supreme Court ruling is a setback, they say, and also a… -
New Census numbers out Thursday reinforce a trend a you’ve probably noticed: The state’s population is booming. Washington ranks fifth for states that…
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A few months back, we introduced you to the Alhamdan family. They’re Syrian refugees. And among the first to arrive in Seattle since war broke out in… -
A man accused of making threats against a Seattle mosque was arrested Tuesday afternoon after a short standoff, police said.Seattle police said an… -
A mosque in Redmond, Washington has added extra security patrols due to a recent threat. It came just hours after the Orlando shooting.Redmond police say… -
Some professors at Seattle University have come out in support of a student protest about curriculum. The students have called for more diverse material,…
