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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PHOTOS: 'Mad Max' smokescape envelops Washington state
The sky is ash gray; the lake is too. Wenatchee and Chelan, popular summer destinations for middle class Seattleites, look like the end of the world...
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The haunting conversation between the plane thief and the air traffic controller
“Hope this isn’t going to ruin your day.”
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Rogue plane takes off from Sea-Tac Airport; crashes on remote Pierce County island
At 8:30 Friday night, one of our reporters, Anna Boiko-Weyrauch wrote an ominous tweet:
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J50 has been found. Now biologists must figure out how to save this young orca
J50 is alive. The emaciated, 3 1/2-year-old orca had seemingly gone missing over the weekend, leading some biologists to worry that she may have died....
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Massive shortage of pain meds affects Seattle hospitals
The supply room for drugs at Wenatchee LifeLine, a rural ambulance service, is bare. Morphine is scant. Bags of saline are precious.
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PHOTOS: Young and homeless on the Ave in Seattle
Nostalgia thrives on the Ave. That’s University Way Northeast to cartographers, a street that pounds with construction and smells of $6.99 Thai lunch...
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Carmen Best will be considered for Seattle police chief, after all
Carmen Best, Seattle’s interim police chief, will be considered for the top job, after all.
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What does consent mean to you? Join our conversation
Since the dawn of the #metoo movement, I have had conversations with men close to me who are reflecting on past sexual experiences. One man told me that...
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The U.S. government has forcibly separated families before. Here are 4 other times
Un-American: A word being used to describe the separations of children from their parents at the Mexican border. History, however, suggests this is very...
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Their mascot was called racist. These Seattle-area students voted to keep it
The Rebel remains. Students at Juanita High School, in Kirkland, have voted overwhelmingly to keep their controversial mascot.