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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Stunning photos of moms of color breastfeeding
They were riding the D Line bus in Seattle when baby got hungry. Mom pulled out her boob.
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Dark, sad poetry by kids in Seattle's juvenile jail
The girl had been raped as a child. Years later, she was in juvenile detention in Seattle, telling her story to Richard Gold, who was helping her write...
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Traffic for miles and 6 stuck elevators this Saturday morning
A downed power line wreaked havoc on north Seattle traffic on Saturday morning – resulting in major backups on Interstate 5 at Northeast 130th Street.
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3 officers shot, 1 suspect dead in Seattle 7-Eleven robbery
Three Seattle Police officers were shot on Thursday afternoon after a robbery at a 7-Eleven convenience store in downtown Seattle. One of the three...
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Silence around Seattle mayor’s rape allegations
This was going to be a story about how far we’ve come in talking about victims of sexual abuse.
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Mayor Murray's editorial, annotated
A week ago, a man with the initials D.H. filed a lawsuit saying that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray had paid him for sex as a teenager in the 1980s. D.H., who...
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Seattle mayor accused of raping teen boy in mid-1980s
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has been accused of raping a teen boy in the mid-1980s, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
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Republican health care bill, short of votes, is withdrawn
House Republicans, short of votes, withdrew their health care bill on Friday afternoon, just before it was supposed to go to the floor. The bill was...
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If WA doesn’t require paid family leave, Seattle may try
Some states have paid family leave. Not Washington, though. That could change.
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Muslim teen found hanged in woods hadn't attended school for 3 weeks
Police continue to investigate the death of a Muslim teenager who was found hanging from a high branch in the woods north of Seattle.