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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They were riding the D Line bus in Seattle when baby got hungry. Mom pulled out her boob.“On the bus, all these white people were around,” mom Sharayah… -
The girl had been raped as a child.Years later, she was in juvenile detention in Seattle, telling her story to Richard Gold, who was helping her write a… -
A downed power line wreaked havoc on north Seattle traffic on Saturday morning – resulting in major backups on Interstate 5 at Northeast 130th Street. A… -
Three Seattle Police officers were shot on Thursday afternoon after a robbery at a 7-Eleven convenience store in downtown Seattle. One of the three… -
This was going to be a story about how far we’ve come in talking about victims of sexual abuse.It was a few days after a man, age 46, initials D.H., filed… -
A week ago, a man with the initials D.H. filed a lawsuit saying that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray had paid him for sex as a teenager in the 1980s. D.H., who at… -
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has been accused of raping a teen boy in the mid-1980s, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday.Two other men say he abused them… -
House Republicans, short of votes, withdrew their health care bill on Friday afternoon, just before it was supposed to go to the floor.The bill was pulled… -
Some states have paid family leave. Not Washington, though.That could change.Republicans and Democrats are considering making it a requirement for all… -
Police continue to investigate the death of a Muslim teenager who was found hanging from a high branch in the woods north of Seattle.Ben Keita, 18, was…
