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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Kshama Sawant pulls ahead, after being 8 points behind on Election Night
On Election Night, the news was that Kshama Sawant, the Seattle socialist council member who refuses to pander, was eight points behind. And that L
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Elections
3 takeaways from Election Night in Seattle, starring Kshama Sawant
Amazon may have exacted its revenge on Kshama Sawant
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This is why some Seattle schools didn’t allow costumes on Halloween
Yes, dressing up as a voodoo doll is cultural appropriation.
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Yes, this is a mushroom. Wild photos of fungi in the Northwest
Mushrooms
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36 hours with Donald Trump, in pictures
It's hard to keep track of the news that President Donald Trump generates.
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KUOW Newsroom
Gas leak in University District: Don't go out onto the Ave, officials say
A gas leak in Seattle’s University District has all but shut down the surrounding blocks.
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Photographic evidence of climate change in the Northwest
Climate change is not a scary thing that might happen in the future. It is here, and
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All the nice things Kamala Harris said about Washington state
We know that Kamala Harris was lobbing us softballs
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KUOW Newsroom
'She did what she had to do.' A school board finalist reckons with a complicated past
On Thursday morning last week, a mom asked Emijah Smith for help.
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Seattle kids without measles vaccine or paperwork will be excluded from school
When Tracy Bennett, the head of Seattle Waldorf School, got word last spring that the state would make it a lot harder to forgo the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, she got to work.