Leah Sottile

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Leah Sottile
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Education Jesuit High School (Beaverton, Oregon)
Alma mater Gonzaga University

Leah Sottile is an American journalist, writer, and podcast host who lives in Portland, Oregon. [1]

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Education

Sottile graduated from Gonzaga University in 2003. [2] [3]

Career

Sottile is the author of the book When the Moon Turns to Blood, about the Vallow/Daybell case. [4]

Sottile covered the Malheur occupation court trials for The Washington Post and Outside, and regularly talked about the trials as a guest on Oregon Public Broadcasting programming. [5] [6] [7] She is the host of the podcasts Bundyville and Bundyville: The Remnant , produced through Longreads, and Two Minutes Past Nine produced by BBC Radio 4. She has written for Rolling Stone , Outside, High Country News and The Washington Post on subjects related to the American West.

Sottile was also the music editor of Spokane, Washington's alt-weekly newspaper, The Inlander. She characterizes bands in Spokane as "willing to take a lot more risks," and also says that: "It's super easy to disregard Spokane. It's seen as a cultural void. But there is a really mobilized youth art movement here that's always anchored in the music scene. I've seen shows in boxing rings, art centers, [and] all kinds of alternative spaces. People in Spokane are scrappy about making it work. That's the backbone of the scene: making a party where there wasn't one before." [8]

Sottile won first place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2015 competition for the Willamette Week article "The Newest Portlanders". [9] Sottile has been a professor of journalism at the University of Montana. [10]

While on staff with The Inlander, Sottile won the Washington State 2011–2012 Mental Health Reporting Award for "The People Left Behind," which features "an in-depth exploration of a 13-year-old's death by suicide and the broader issues of mental health and suicide-prevention in Spokane and the Inland Empire". She also won third place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2010 competition for "Blood Sport," an article on backyard wrestling in Spokane. [11]

Sottile was also a guest on KUOW-FM programming, where she talked about an article she wrote for Outside about a Bigfoot sighting by Bob Gimlin. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Leah Sottile". leahsottile.com.
  2. ↑ "Building Community: Luke Baumgarten & Leah Sottile | Gonzaga University". gonzaga.edu. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  3. ↑ "School of Journalism". jour.umt.edu. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Northwest Passages Book Review: "When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times" – Leah Sottile (Twelve) | The Spokesman-Review". spokesman.com. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  5. ↑ Ryan Haas; Dave Blanchard; Anna Griffin; Amanda Peacher. "'This Land Is Our Land' Ep. 8: Gun Laws And Gun Culture In Court Bundy". opb.org.
  6. ↑ Peacher, Amanda; Haas, Ryan. "'This Land Is Our Land' Update: Closing Arguments". opb.org.
  7. ↑ Griffin, Anna; Wilson, Conrad. "'This Land Is Our Land' Ep. 12: The Aftermath". opb.org.
  8. ↑ "Ten Spokane Bands You Need to Hear Now (And Why You Should Roadtrip to Friday's Volume Music Fest)". Seattle Weekly.com.
  9. ↑ "Congratulations to this year's Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest Winners – SPJ Western Washington". spjwash.org. June 18, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Leah Sottile". jour.umt.edu. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Eleven for '10". inlander.com.
  12. ↑ Radke, Bill; Martin, Matt. "How a Central Washington farmer became the Bigfoot seer". kuow.org.
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