Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously, she was the station's Online Managing Editor.
She has 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.
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.
You can send her tips and story ideas via email or, more privately, by Instagram direct message @isoldedenise.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Dental floss and tiny trackers: Surreal photos show hunt for murder hornets
This weekend, on Saturday, scientists launched a "dawn assault" on a murder hornet nest near the Canadian border.
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A King County detective mocked a protester's death online — then his boss took him down
A King County Sheriff’s detective could be terminated for eight social media posts and comments he made over the summer relating to the protests for civil rights and racial justice in Seattle.
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Education
What these Seattle-area kids have to say about online school
There is smoke in the air (visible) and a virus (invisible), and Seattle-area parents are throwing their ALL-CAPS energy at frustrations with online school.
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Dangerous maggot larvae found in apples that Gov. Jay Inslee gifted to wildfire-ravaged town
Over the weekend, Gov. Jay Inslee brought honey crisp apples from his orchard to eastern Washington.
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2,000 have died of coronavirus in Washington state. That's halfway to China's total death toll
According to the latest numbers from the state's Department of Health, Washington has now suffered more than 2,000 deaths related to Covid-19.
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Pier collapses on Seattle waterfront
Pier 58 is next to the Great Wheel, near the Seattle Aquarium.
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1-year-old dies in Washington state fire
The Cold Springs Fire near Omak, Washington, engulfed a Renton family over the weekend, burning the parents and killing their 1-year-old child.
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This is how hard it is to identify a Seattle cop
In Seattle, a police officer's "badge number" could be a unique identifier — or it could be a number on a randomly assigned badge. And even when the number does identify an individual officer, it can still be tricky to identify them using that alone
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Police neck restraints now banned in many Seattle suburbs
Police chiefs say protests were the catalyst for change.
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Seattle officers apply elsewhere as city leaders consider cutting police department in half
Seattle Police officers are applying to police jobs in other police agencies, according to applications received at police departments in Everett, Federal Way, Renton, and the King County Sheriff's Office.