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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Braced for more troubling news, immigrants around the country nervously await version two of President Trump’s travel ban. The revised executive order is… -
At the moment, border patrol agents can quickly deport someone within 100 miles of the southern border, and within 14 days of their arrival in the U.S.… -
UPDATE: 2/17/17, 3:30 p.m. PTA federal judge in Seattle declined to immediately release Daniel Ramirez Medina, as his attorneys requested Friday in U.S.… -
Bill Radke talks with KUOW immigration reporter Liz Jones about the arrest and detention of Daniel Ramirez Medina, who's been held at the Northwest…
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An immigrant in Seattle with temporary legal status through the DACA or “dreamer” program is currently being held at the Northwest Detention Center in… -
“This is the best day of my life,” said Syrian refugee Jaidaa Al Halabi, just minutes after she stepped off a plane at Sea-Tac Airport. Her younger… -
They were ready. They had even packed gifts for relatives who would greet them in Seattle.Then a snowstorm delayed the flight.And the very next day,… -
Liz Jones talks with Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson about the state's lawsuit against President Donald Trump. On Friday, a federal judge in… -
Cordelia Revells anxiously peers down the arrival gate a Sea-Tac Airport.“We’re looking for a family of six,” Revells says. “You’ll know it’s them because… -
It ended almost as dramatically as it began.After working “literally around the clock” all week, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his…
