Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor 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.
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.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French (fluent)
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Obama Press Corps Gives Love To Seattle Radio
Our radio friends at KEXP and KNDD got some love from the Obama press corps when the president was in town last week. Jim Brunner, a government reporter...
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Was Big Bertha Seattle's Best Mayor?
Before Bertha was a boring machine stuck under Seattle, she was Seattle’s first female mayor. In 1926, her campaign motto was “municipal housekeeping.”...
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Ride The Ducks Vehicle Had Faulty Axle; 5th Victim Dies
The Duck vehicle had a fatal flaw. As investigators picked through the wreckage that killed five students and left dozens badly injured, they saw the...
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Terror On A Narrow Bridge Brings Back Dad's Pain
When Mike Warren of Queen Anne turned on his TV Thursday, his gut tightened. Four people had died in a collision on the Aurora Bridge beneath his house...
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What Teachers Earn In Seattle (And Why Other Districts Pay More)
Standing outside Roosevelt High School on Thursday, a Seattle teacher held up the gold standard. It was the tentative contract for Everett schools,...
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PHOTOS: Sunbathers Gawked As Wildfires Burned Chelan
It was a hot Friday morning when a bolt of lightning stretched out three fingers and hit Chelan Butte. Then a deafening clap of thunder. Then several...
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Kids Are Fighting Wildfires In Washington State
Crews of juvenile inmates have been sent to fight wildfires in Washington state since the 1960s. Until a teen escaped last week, assaulted a supervisor...
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In Twisp: 'If The Fire Comes Our Way, We’re Going To Stay'
Wildfire was roaring toward their 640-acre ranch near Twisp, but Judy Doran McBride and her husband stood their ground. “If the fire comes our way, we...
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Firefighters Killed Near Twisp Include Whitman Student And Biologist
The three firefighters who were killed Wednesday in the Okanagon Complex fire in north-central Washington have been identified. They are Tom Zbyszewski,...
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Northwest Wildfires Photographed From Space
From space, the West looks like it’s on fire. In Washington state, brown smoke obscures the Cascades in these photos taken by a NASA satellite. Most of...