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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The sky is ash gray; the lake is too.Wenatchee and Chelan, popular summer destinations for middle class Seattleites, look like the end of the world right… -
“Hope this isn’t going to ruin your day.”The words were soft as they bounced into the air traffic control live feed. The man who spoke them was a… -
At 8:30 Friday night, one of our reporters, Anna Boiko-Weyrauch wrote an ominous tweet:“My pilot speaking,” her tweet began. “It’s a Horizon Q400 big… -
J50 is alive.The emaciated, 3 1/2-year-old orca had seemingly gone missing over the weekend, leading some biologists to worry that she may have died.Plans… -
The supply room for drugs at Wenatchee LifeLine, a rural ambulance service, is bare. Morphine is scant. Bags of saline are precious.LifeLine often… -
Nostalgia thrives on the Ave.That’s University Way Northeast to cartographers, a street that pounds with construction and smells of $6.99 Thai lunch… -
Carmen Best, Seattle’s interim police chief, will be considered for the top job, after all.Best had been snubbed in May when she didn’t make it to the… -
Since the dawn of the #metoo movement, I have had conversations with men close to me who are reflecting on past sexual experiences.One man told me that he…
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Un-American: A word being used to describe the separations of children from their parents at the Mexican border.History, however, suggests this is very… -
The Rebel remains.Students at Juanita High School, in Kirkland, have voted overwhelmingly to keep their controversial mascot.The final tally was 680 in…
