Lauren Frohne

Seattle

Lead Video Journalist at Seattle Times

Lead video journalist 🎥 @seattletimes | ✊@SeaTimesUnion | Previously: @bostonglobe @opensociety @UNCViscom

Articles

WATCH: What a longtime advocate wants you to know about fentanyl and kids

Dec 4, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Hannah Furfaro |Lauren Frohne

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for children and families. Additional support is provided by City University of Seattle. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over work produced by this team. Johnny Ohta’s job has always been about life or death.
WATCH: Meet the older activists hoping to save WA’s legacy forests

Oct 15, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne |Lynda V. Mapes

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.
Watch: Seattle jump rope group turns outdoor fitness into a party

Aug 27, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne

Positively PNWOn a hot August day, Angie Mosley unloads dozens of hula hoops, pogo sticks and jump ropes from her colorful green minivan in the parking lot of the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club. “Everybody knows the Double Dutch Divas van,” says Mosley, pulling a large speaker out of the back of the van. “They know that Double Dutch Divas is poppin’ and we’re the party starters.”As Mosley and her fellow coaches set up for the summer camp session, dozens of kids stream into the courtyard.
Video: Oso landslide site memorializes victims, teaches scientists about risks

Mar 18, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne

“Ten years later, I still have a gamut of emotions,” says Joel Johnson, as he looks out at the wall of exposed rock and soil on the hillside above the SR 530 Slide Memorial. “There’s sadness, there’s the pain, the sting of loss that we experienced in this community.” But at the newly completed memorial, he also feels hope.
Seattle Times video team snags top awards: Watch the winning documentary work

Mar 7, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne |Ramon Dompor

The Seattle Times video team was honored with multiple awards from the National Press Photographers Association in this year’s Best of Photojournalism contest, including a top honor for a portfolio of video stories that highlights the unique landscapes and communities of the Pacific Northwest. The judges cited “beautiful cinematography” and compelling narratives as reasons for awarding The Seattle Times first place for its portfolio.
Video: The right to fish, Boldt decision and WA salmon recovery

Jan 14, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne

Out on the water, James Rideout thinks about his parents. When he was a child they would leave at night to fish, and he would cry because he missed them. At the time it was illegal for tribal members to fish off the reservation but that did not stop them. “Without our salmon, there is no us,” says Rideout, now a member of the Puyallup Tribal Council.
2023: The Year in Video

Dec 28, 2023 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne |Ramon Dompor |Erika Schultz

As a new foster mom, she was sinking fast. So she grabbed a raft
Video: Megan Rapinoe explains ‘the pose,’ activism and what’s next

Oct 5, 2023 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne |Jayda Evans

As Megan Rapinoe prepares for retirement, she took time with Seattle Times reporter Jayda Evans to reflect on the big moments of her career. “I don’t think it was even possible at the point when I was a kid to even dream of what was to come,” Rapinoe said during the interview. “For me, certainly it’s a dream career.”Watch the interview to hear Rapinoe reflect on creating the pose she strikes after scoring, on her experiences kneeling during the national anthem and what she is planning next.
Video: Why this family of a trans child fled to Seattle

Sep 16, 2023 | seattletimes.com | Erika Schultz |Lauren Frohne |Tat Bellamy-Walker
VIDEO: In West Seattle’s giant troll, Coast Salish culture meets Danish folklore

Sep 1, 2023 | seattletimes.com | Lauren Frohne

In a most unexpected way, Coast Salish culture has meshed with Danish folklore on the shores of Lincoln Park — in the form of a giant troll. Bruun Idun, as she’s been named, is one of six trolls made from scraps of wood headed for landfills and burn piles that Danish environmental artist Thomas Dambo is constructing in the Pacific Northwest.