Isolde Raftery
Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Managing Editor at KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Isolde attended James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and later graduated from Barnard College in New York City. She received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Nine popular Seattle beaches closed after 3M gallon sewage spill
Three million gallons is roughly five Olympic-sized pools
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'His heart was tender.' Daughter of antifa killed at Tacoma immigration jail reflects on his life
On Saturday, a 69-year-old man named Willem van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, was shot dead by police outside the Northwest Detention Center, a jail for immigrants in Tacoma.
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Man with flares and a rifle shot dead at immigration jail in Tacoma
An armed man who had been throwing explosives at the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, was shot dead by police on Saturday morning.
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Talbott defense doubles down on rape versus consensual sex angle in appeal
William Talbott II, who was found guilty two weeks ago of murdering a young Canadian couple on an overnight road trip to Seattle, has asked for a new trial.
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Top quotes from Megan Rapinoe's speech (no, she's not running for president)
Was Megan Rapinoe, of the purple-now-pink hair and fierce penalty kick … tipsy?
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Tupperware writes us a surprising email about a needle disposal story
Last week, KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reported on what to do with discarded needles.
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Joe Biden catches heat in Seattle over gay rights comment. But context may be key
Seattle might not have made fun of a gay waiter five years ago, but what about a trans waiter?
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GUILTY: Bill Talbott convicted of murder after family tree unearths his decades-old secret
This is the first time a suspect was nabbed using the combined powers of DNA and old-school genealogy.
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Their smiles were 'defiant.' A cop puts a young black man in a chokehold
Josiah Hunter was 21 when the skinny cop with the orange-red hair put him in a chokehold and yelled, his breath hot on Hunter’s ear, “Stop resisting arrest!”
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Seattle’s cheese-cracker addicted squirrel is traumatizing kids
Earlier this week, a Seattle mom posted a warning to a neighborhood parent group. “Beware this squirrel with the notched ear,” she wrote. “It rules over the playground at Discovery Park.”