Isolde Raftery
Online Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the investigations editor at KUOW since 2022. 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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Reporters notebook: how a story goes from rumor to reported
This week, KUOW published a big story involving a city official and allegations of corruption. Reporting on something like this isn’t easy. Following up on whispers, fact checking, getting people to talk to you – and providing the proper context. These stories are high-risk, and take a lot of time, effort, and editorial reflection. So today we wanted to dive into how – and why – KUOW reported this story. And what’s happened in the days since it was published.
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Seattle police chief's alleged relationship with employee prompts inquiries, roils department
The rumor started spreading in February.
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Listen to the last song Toki, the captive orca, sang, a tune her mother taught her
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Burglar dressed as firefighter to rob home amid wildfire near Spokane: sheriff
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Election results: 2023 primary in Seattle and King County
These are the primary election results from August 1, 2023 for Seattle and King County.
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5 people shot at Rainier Beach Safeway in Seattle
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How Luma, an ancient cedar, has transfixed Seattle
Seattle is a young racehorse of a city, a mere babe at 172 years old, who propelled herself through the jet age and now a tech boom, amassing wealth and dreamers and high rises and artisanal bakeries that sell $11 loaves and no one bats an eye.
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Upscale grocery store Metropolitan Market to open location in north Ballard
Metropolitan Market, a boutique Seattle supermarket chain, is opening a 10th location in Crown Hill, in north Ballard, on August 30.
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Don't forget to enroll your kid in kindergarten like I did
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Megan Rapinoe, pink-haired soccer legend, announces retirement