Isolde Raftery
Online Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery is the online managing editor at KUOW. She was hired as the station's first online editor in 2013 and was promoted to her current position in 2018.
Previously, she worked for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state. She has freelanced breaking news and crime stories for The Chicago Tribune, Seattlepi.com and Seattle Business magazine.
Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up in Dublin, Paris and Seattle, where she attended James A. Garfield High School. She later graduated from Barnard College in New York City and received a master's degree in literary nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Stories
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Coronavirus is more contagious now than last year as variants spread in King County
As Seattleites emerge from quarantine to celebrate warm weather and vaccination, ominous news comes from public health experts.
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Seattle students to return full time, in person this fall. Remote option available
Seattle Public Schools will return to full-time, in-person education this fall, Superintendent Dr. Brent Jones announced Thursday morning.
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KUOW Newsroom
How a young Black family fought John L. Scott and changed Seattle
In 1959, at a dentist’s home in Seattle, a housekeeper was told to leave early. Her employers were hosting a neighborhood meeting. Before she left, she overheard their discussion: They were plotting ways to prevent a young Black doctor and his family from moving into the Modernist house across the street. They had a secret weapon: real estate titan John L. Scott.
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KUOW Newsroom
How a little island drug store became one of the biggest vaccination sites in Washington state
The first thing to know about getting the coronavirus vaccine at Island Drug in Oak Harbor is that Fran Castro is in charge, and she is a goddamn hero.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
One year since Seattle schools closed, here are some hurdles to reopening
Kids are returning to school across the country, but the Seattle School District remains almost entirely remote. With teachers eligible for the vaccine, and rates decreasing, what’s going on?
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KUOW Newsroom
A legend at Garfield High School, Rick walked the halls for half a century. This is his story
Wendell Hicks, known to the Central District as “Two Brick Rick,” and “Garfield Rick,” died last week. He was 69. The cause was pneumonia, his appointed guardian said.
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Seattle council candidate withdraws after criminal assault exposed
Michael McQuaid, a candidate for Seattle City Council, has withdrawn from the race after an article in the Seattle Times exposed a criminal assault from 2015.
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This pioneer worked the Underground Railroad — and founded Seattle's Black Central District
In the early days, they called him Big Bill the Cook.
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'At least' two Seattle cops in D.C. on Wednesday, police chief says
The Seattle Police Department learned on Friday that two of its officers had been in Washington, D.C., o
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Coronavirus In Seattle
'Worth every minute.' Drive-through vaccines kick off in Renton
Farrah Azur, a dental hygienist, debated getting the Covid vaccine.