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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KUOW Newsroom
This simple step prevents fraudsters from posing as you for unemployment money
An international band of imposters have been posing as tens of thousands of Washingtonians to file for unemployment claims since the beginning of May, according to the Employment Security Department. This may have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
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KUOW Newsroom
What these nurses see on the Covid ICU in Seattle
The air turns over every 20 to 25 minutes on the Covid ICU at the University of Washington Medical Center, but no one breathes easy.
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KUOW Newsroom
I am the nurse manager on the Covid ICU. We have the sad stories, and those who have beaten this
Amy Haverland is the nurse manager on the Covid intensive care unit at UW Medical Center. She shared what it was like to have her home base turned into the place for the sickest of the sick with coronavirus.
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Trump's 'unhinged rantings' could lead to violence amid a pandemic, Gov. Jay Inslee says
Gov. Jay Inslee issued a bold statement on Friday about President Donald Trump letting governors decide when to open their states.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
Antibody testing could reveal how widespread coronavirus has been in California
California researchers believe that coronavirus may have been spreading in California last fall. That might explain why Californians haven’t been ravaged by the virus -- many of them may have built up immunity.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
DIY masks can block coronavirus. Here are tips before you sew
At first they said not to bother with masks; they didn’t work, they said.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
Did Grandma bring coronavirus to the Seattle-area nursing home? A family weighs the evidence
Grandma lay on the bed, her eyes open and vacant. She wore a thin white hospital smock dotted with small flowers and held her granddaughter’s hand as afternoon light enveloped the room.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
Stay at home, the governor says. But what does that mean, exactly?
Gov. Jay Inslee announced a stay-at-home order on Monday to fight back coronavirus. As he spoke, the state had updated its deaths from the virus to 110, and case count to 2,000. The governor's order left some wondering about what leeway they had to maintain some semblance of normalcy. We compiled your questions, and tried to answer them below. We will continue attempting to answer the questions that come in.
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Coronavirus In Seattle
N95 masks spotted at Target in Seattle, and politicians swoop in divert them to hospitals
When reporter Ann Dornfeld went to Target in West Seattle on Friday morning to buy toilet paper, she was shocked to see rows of N95 protective masks for sale -- $6.79 for two.
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Diary of a maybe-coronavirus patient in Seattle who tried to get tested
Katherine is a 29-year-old Seattleite who is healthy but who picks up the bug of the moment. And now she wonders whether she has coronavirus, which is spreading in the region.