ProPublica names Ashley Hiruko as a Northwest Fellow KUOW Staff August 08, 2025 / 3:40 pm

ProPublica announced that Ashley Hiruko, an investigative reporter with KUOW Public Radio in Seattle, has been selected as a Northwest fellow for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Hiruko joins Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News, Tony Schick of Oregon Public Broadcasting and three ProPublica staff reporters who work together to cover the Pacific Northwest.

Hiruko’s stories for KUOW have revealed key details of the messy city response to the 2020 protest occupation of the Capitol Hill neighborhood; exposed, in a joint investigation with The Seattle Times, the fact that city police stopped investigating sex crimes involving adult victims; uncovered allegations that Mayor Bruce Harrell

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