Isolde Raftery
Online Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery is the online managing editor at KUOW. She was hired as the station's first online editor in 2013 and was promoted to her current position in 2018.
Previously, she 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. She has freelanced breaking news and crime stories for The Chicago Tribune, Seattlepi.com and Seattle Business magazine.
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.
Stories
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Old photos of black Seattle delivered in boxes: Help us ID them
In March 2015, tens of thousands of black and white photographs by Al Smith were donated to MOHAI — the Museum of History and Industry — in Seattle.
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PHOTOS: Makah Indian whale hunts from 1900s
The Makah Tribe held a final hunt in 1999, but has not since practiced its whaling rights.
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Second-grade teacher on Seattle shooting: 'He looked me in the eyes and shot'
Deborah Judd, 56, was one of three people shot on Sand Point Way on Wednesday afternoon. She is a second-grade teacher at Laurelhurst Elementary.
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KUOW Newsroom
'His eyes, he kind of looked at me.' Inside the mayhem in northeast Seattle
Two people were killed and two injured in a carjacking and shooting spree in Northeast Seattle Wednesday evening.
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2 people dead after shooting in Northeast Seattle
Seattle Police reported a shooting near 120th and Sand Point Way, a wooded residential area of northeast Seattle.
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Jay Inslee says Boeing blackmailed Washington state in Daily Show interview
They 'put a gun to your ribs. You’re going to lose 20,000 jobs unless you give us a tax break'
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Trump grounds all Boeing 737 Max planes after Ethiopia crash
The president called for the grounding of all Max 8 and Max 9 aircrafts following the Ethiopian Air crash, which killed all 157 people on board.
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Three hints your relationship is working, according to these researchers
One difference between happy couples and miserable couples is how they repair disagreements or tough moments.
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Photo of Nazi-saluting teens on Mercer Island rattles community
A photo of two Mercer Island high school students making the Nazi salute circulated wildly on social media on Tuesday morning, rattling the small city east of Seattle.
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5 things about Gov. Jay Inslee that you almost definitely don’t know
Frank Inslee, Jay’s dad, was a biology teacher at Garfield High School, at the heart of Seattle’s historically black neighborhood, and he taught Jimi Hendrix.