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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Seattle Candidates From Where The Sidewalk Ends
We’ve been asking Seattle City Council candidates to answer whimsical questions. What animal would they be? What magical power would they have? Who is...
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Seattle's District 3 Candidates Aren't Pulling Any Punches
Pamela Banks, a candidate for Seattle’s District 3 council seat, calls her opponent "Budget Rally."
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Liberal Tide Takes On Moderate Incumbent In Seattle Council Race
Standing outside the KUOW station, we asked Seattle City Council candidate Jon Grant what he would do if he lost. He would pay off his debt, he said....
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These Seattle Candidates Disagreed On Everything, Then Drove Off Together
The candidates in District 7 are both dog people. Sally Bagshaw, the incumbent, used to have golden retrievers. Deborah Zech Artis has a blind bichon...
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The Dream Of The '90s Is Alive In This Seattle Council Race
Cringey. That was the feeling inside the tiny booth off the studio during a recent Seattle City Council candidate debate.
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It's Tubs Girl Vs. Kale Guy In Northwest Seattle
The candidates for Seattle’s District 6 could not be more Seattle. Catherine Weatbrook – she used to be a Tubs girl. Tubs was a shady, windowless...
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District 1 Candidates On Housing, Magic And Margaret Mead
Ten minutes before West Seattle candidates Lisa Herbold and Shannon Braddock arrived at the KUOW studios, host David Hyde paced around his desk.
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Seattle's District 4 Candidates Are Becoming BFFs
Outside the radio booth, Seattle City Council candidates Michael Maddux and Rob Johnson look like they could be brothers. Easy smiles. Blue tops....
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SLIDESHOW: Why Seattle Moms Still Pump In Bathrooms
The lactation room wasn’t a room at all. It was a corner of the lunch room in an old King County building in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood. A...
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Obama Press Corps Gives Love To Seattle Radio
Our radio friends at KEXP and KNDD got some love from the Obama press corps when the president was in town last week. Jim Brunner, a government reporter...