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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The Daily Show Features KUOW Vet Story
On Monday night KUOW reporter Patricia Murphy received a frantic call from her sister in New Jersey: “YOU’RE ON THE F*&%ING DAILY SHOW!” she said....
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Auction Of Edith Macefield's Ballard House Was Mostly For Show
If Edith Macefield had been standing outside the King County courthouse, she might have rolled her eyes. An auctioneer stood behind a white plastic...
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Shots Hit Seattle School Bus; No Injuries
Shots suspected of coming from a BB gun hit a school bus outside Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in South Seattle on Thursday afternoon,...
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Four Workers Injured In SR 99 Tunnel Accident
Four workers were injured in an accident at the north end of the 99 tunnel project near Seattle Center on Thursday afternoon. Three of those workers...
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Cancer Parents Say Anti-Vaxxers Put Their Kids At Risk
Owain Weinert, at age 8, hadn’t been eating breakfast and was sleeping 12 to 14 hours a night. For months, mysterious fevers came and went. His mother...
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Nostalgia And Nerves Ahead Of 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Sequel
Harper Lee’s second book will be out in July – will librarian Nancy Pearl grab the first available copy? “You know, I don’t want to be disappointed,”...
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Making A Superhero From Scratch: A Writer’s Origin Story
G. Willow Wilson’s origin story, in a matter of speaking, started in New Jersey on about 3 acres of land surrounded by old-growth woods, where her...
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Seattle's Elysian Brewing Sold To Anheuser-Busch
Elysian Brewing of Seattle – and of deliciously hoppy IPAs – is being sold to Anheuser-Busch, the big beer company headquartered in St. Louis. ...
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'A Death With Dignity' For The Kalakala
It was before dawn on Thursday, and the cold air off the Blair Waterway in Tacoma was damp and penetrating. Karl Anderson, a mustachioed man in his 70s,...
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Lockdown Lifted After Reports Of Gunman At Shoreline Elementary School
Updated at 4:11 p.m., 1/7/2015: Reports of an armed male on school grounds sent Shoreline schools into lockdown on Wednesday morning, said Sergeant DB...