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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Crime
Washington state man arrested in D.C. neighborhood where Obamas live
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Government
About the gun that killed a boy at Seattle’s Ingraham High School
This is the story of a gun. It begins with a 14-year-old boy showing it off. It ends with another boy dying in a high school hallway.
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Crime
7 graphics on kids and guns in the Seattle area
Sixty-eight kids died by gun between 2017 and 2022 in King County. That's like three classrooms wiped out.
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Environment
The only frog in the world that goes 'ribbit' is here in the Pacific Northwest
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Environment
The Titanic tourist sub was built by a Seattle man's Everett-based company
The vessel's captain is Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate and a Seattle resident who lives in Madison Valley.
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'I'm still healing.' Boarding school survivors recount stories of abuse, trauma
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Government
'She would hide in the corner and hope the rats wouldn’t get her'
The air was smoky with welcome outside the gathering hall on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
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Government
No, Twitter. We are not 'state-affiliated media.' (Seriously, Elon Musk?)
Groaaaaaaaaan.
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A man dies of an overdose. Then chaos ensues at his swank Seattle apartment building
Bobby Hawran was a retired longshoreman with a handsome face and an even handsomer pension.
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Government
A highly charged public meeting in Seattle's Greenwood — but don't you dare record it
Dan Strauss, the city councilmember for Ballard and Greenwood, attempted a media blackout of a public meeting on Monday night.