Isolde Raftery
Online Managing EditorYear started with KUOW: 2013
Isolde Raftery became the online editor at KUOW in October 2013. Previously, she worked for NBCNews.com and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state. She has also written extensively for The New York Times, where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010, The Chicago Tribune, Seattlepi.com and Seattle Business magazine.
Isolde was promoted to Online Managing Editor in 2018.
Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up mostly in 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.
To see more of Isolde's KUOW portfolio, visit our current site.
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After their formal interviews, we asked Seattle mayoral candidates to answer less traditional questions. The goal was to humanize them beyond the wonk.…
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After their formal interviews, we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. For a decade, a…
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After their formal interviews, we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Mike McGinn,…
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After their formal interviews, we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses.The first thing…
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After their formal interviews, we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Bob Hasegawa,…
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After their formal interviews, we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Cary Moon is an…
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In the minutes after Charleena Lyles was shot by police, a 12-year-old girl slipped by police officers and ran up four flights of stairs.The girl,…
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Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of abusing him, withdrew his lawsuit this week. But he said he did it at his attorneys'…
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On a gray day last October, teachers across Seattle wore a shirt that read BLACK LIVES MATTER.They knew there might be criticism. John Muir Elementary in…
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Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex when he was 15, has withdrawn his lawsuit.Heckard submitted a motion to…