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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KUOW Newsroom
Gas leak in University District: Don't go out onto the Ave, officials say
A gas leak in Seattle’s University District has all but shut down the surrounding blocks.
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Photographic evidence of climate change in the Northwest
Climate change is not a scary thing that might happen in the future. It is here, and
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All the nice things Kamala Harris said about Washington state
We know that Kamala Harris was lobbing us softballs
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KUOW Newsroom
'She did what she had to do.' A school board finalist reckons with a complicated past
On Thursday morning last week, a mom asked Emijah Smith for help.
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Seattle kids without measles vaccine or paperwork will be excluded from school
When Tracy Bennett, the head of Seattle Waldorf School, got word last spring that the state would make it a lot harder to forgo the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, she got to work.
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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.