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Dean Miller

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Seattle, Washington
As seen in: Lead Stories, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Finance, The Seattle Times, Yahoo, Genetic Literacy Project, Bryan-College Station Eagle, Grand Island Independent, Missoulian, The Free Lance-Star, Nieman Reports and
Covers:  U.S. Elections, War in Ukraine, War in Gaza, COVID
Doesn't Cover: sports, entertainment,
Ink-stained wretch now writing and editing for independent fact-check agency Lead Stories.

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Dean Miller’s Biography

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Managing Editor, Lead Stories
Practitioner in Residence, Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington

Chronological Formers:
Seattle Times Free Press Editor;
Editor, The Port Townsend Leader (weekly);
Lecturer, Western Washington University
SVP/Content at Connecticut Public Broadcasting;
Director, Center for News Literacy Stony Brook University;
Executive Editor, Idaho Falls (Idaho)Post Register
Idaho politics reporter, The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review;
*Statehouse reporter, The Twin F…

Dean Miller’s Journalist Portfolio

Move fast and break (other people's) things

Move fast and break (other people's) things

I know which side of history I want to be on and it is that of family-owned newspapers and local businesses, …

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The local news' 'vulture capitalist' breaks his silence

The local news' 'vulture capitalist' breaks his silence

"Perhaps we should have been more proactive in setting the record straight and correcting coverage in order t…

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Three tough lessons are emerging from efforts to restore local ownership of the Chicago Tribune

Three tough lessons are emerging from efforts to restore local ownership of the Chicago Tribune

Reporter David Jackson and his colleagues' campaign to preserve the Chicago Tribune's legacy of local news ex…

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Save the Free Press for democracy

Save the Free Press for democracy

The Seattle Times' Save the Free Press Initiative aims to shine a light on threats to the free press system a…

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A Local Newspaper Endures a Stormy Backlash | Nieman Reports

A Local Newspaper Endures a Stormy Backlash | Nieman Reports

RELATED WEB LINK Scouts' honor - Post Register Online Some days we felt like one of those plucky anglers in a…

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Articles

Fact Check: Personal Assistants To Celebrities Like Tanya Tucker, Kid Rock, Nikki Sixx Did NOT Die At Age 30 -- Nor Was One Woman Assistant To Several

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By Dean Miller Verified
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Lead Stories says: Factory Fakes Did the personal assistants to celebrities including Kid Rock, Prince William, Nikki Sixx and Tanya Tucker die in early 2026, all at age 30? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories mentioning those and other famous names were all published by an international network of websites and Facebook pages. There were no news articles about the supposed deaths.
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Fact Check: Personal Assistants To Celebrities Like Tanya Tucker, Kid Rock, Nikki Sixx Did NOT Die At Age 30 -- Nor Was One Woman Assistant To Several

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By Dean Miller Verified
| Lead Stories Verified
Factory Fakes Did the personal assistants to celebrities including Kid Rock, Prince William, Nikki Sixx and Tanya Tucker die in early 2026, all at age 30? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories mentioning those and other famous names were all published by an international network of websites and Facebook pages. There were no news articles about the supposed deaths.
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Fact Check: Trump Is NOT Closing All Forest Service Regional Offices, Reorganization Moves Agency West With New Geographic Districts

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By Dean Miller Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Lead Stories says: Reorg. ≠ Close Is Donald Trump closing all regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service? No, that's not true: Official terminology will change, but there will still be offices in many regions of the U.S. under the plan announced March 31, 2026. Fifteen new "State Offices", most of them in the national-lands-heavy western states, will replace the Forest Service's 1908 system of nine roughly equal-sized regions, each with a headquarters called a "Regional Office".
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

At my first two newspapers, we wrote on paper with typewriters. Manual and then Selectric.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

via email

Why did you become a journalist?

I couldn't help it. I was a politics/campaigns nerd, loved to write, interested in how things work. It was a good fit.

Awards

Scripps Howard Award

2005 - distinguished service to the First Amendment

We were recognized for documenting a series of pedophile Boy Scout leaders.

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Mirror Award for media writers

2007 - Breaking News

Syracuse University Newhouse School of Journalism's awards to media writers.

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