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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Trends we noticed on primary election night in Seattle …
The first batch of primary election results dropped on Tuesday night, and we’re noticing some trends.
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Orca population drops as 3 more killer whales presumed dead
Three endangered orcas are believed to be dead, according to the Center for Whale Research, which keeps an eye on the southern resident killer whales of the Salish Sea.
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Who is Paige Thompson, the Seattle woman accused of hacking Capital One?
On Monday, federal investigators raided a small house on Beacon Hill and arrested a 33-year-old woman named Paige A. Thompson.
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KUOW Newsroom
The shame we carried
Yvonne described it as a horror movie playing on a loop in her mind.
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KUOW Newsroom
Resources: postpartum anxiety and depression
Read: "The shame we carried." A reporter shares her experience with postpartum anxiety and obsessive compulsive, and speaks with other moms about theirs.
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Nine popular Seattle beaches closed after 3M gallon sewage spill
Three million gallons is roughly five Olympic-sized pools
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'His heart was tender.' Daughter of antifa killed at Tacoma immigration jail reflects on his life
On Saturday, a 69-year-old man named Willem van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, was shot dead by police outside the Northwest Detention Center, a jail for immigrants in Tacoma.
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Man with flares and a rifle shot dead at immigration jail in Tacoma
An armed man who had been throwing explosives at the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, was shot dead by police on Saturday morning.
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Talbott defense doubles down on rape versus consensual sex angle in appeal
William Talbott II, who was found guilty two weeks ago of murdering a young Canadian couple on an overnight road trip to Seattle, has asked for a new trial.
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Top quotes from Megan Rapinoe's speech (no, she's not running for president)
Was Megan Rapinoe, of the purple-now-pink hair and fierce penalty kick … tipsy?