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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In 2015, photographer Mike Kane met Ericka, a sex worker on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle. Ericka was selling sex to support her heroin and meth… -
On a single night in January, more than 12,000 people were counted as homeless throughout Seattle and King County.That included people living on the… -
Isaac Sederbaum, badly bloodied, finally connected with 911 on the fourth call.“I got attacked by a mountain lion,” he said. He was breathless. “My friend… -
Chef Edouardo Jordan brought major gold home to Seattle this week by winning two James Beard Awards. One for Best Northwest Chef, a recognition of his… -
Seattle Chef Edouardo Jordan kept one item off his menu when he opened Salare in 2015.“I didn’t want to put fried chicken on the menu,” Jordan said in the… -
Let May 2, 2018, be known as the day that Seattle Nice died.On Wednesday night, the day after May Day, residents packed a city council hearing at a United… -
I debated whether to share this fart story with you, because farts are – unfairly, in my opinion – maligned as juvenile and bad manners. But I decided in… -
I debated whether to share this fart story with you, because farts are – unfairly, in my opinion – maligned as juvenile and bad manners. But I decided in… -
Benton Strong, the spokesman who stood by embattled Mayor Ed Murray to the end, has been revealed to have a checkered past of his own.A Buzzfeed… -
In the photo above — posted by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook and Twitter this week – a man sits on the ground after being Tased by…
