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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“What’s the right way to go around Green Lake?” Isaac Chirino of Shoreline asked KUOW’s Local Wonder.Boy, people REALLY care about this one.People like… -
Natasha Marin is a Seattle artist who noticed a divide on her Facebook feed: Her black friends were angry and frustrated about police shootings of black… -
First, an admission.We were clueless when we started researching the house at 1643 South King Street in Seattle's International District.Producer Amina… -
If this house could talk, what stories would it tell?About the Irish-American couple that first owned it?And the Japanese family sent to an internment…
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At a vigil Sunday night, Seattleites shared their thoughts about the Orlando shooting that occurred earlier that morning. Ricquel Sears of Capitol Hill,… -
Last week we published an essay by Dr. Bob Hughes about a shocking experience at a Starbucks on Capitol Hill in Seattle.Hughes was meeting with a… -
A year ago, we published photos from the 1940s and 50s of black people in Seattle just living their lives.The photographer was Al Smith, an amateur… -
With his dark-rimmed glasses, Jonah Knutson doesn’t look like the salty fisherman.But he smells like it.“I’ve got a distinctive old wooden boat smell,”… -
There's been a spate of rapes and sexual assaults on the University of Washington campus, although police do not believe these incidents are related.Since… -
Donald L. Trump of Des Moines, Washington, doesn’t have a red cap.“I don’t have the hair, the money or the big mouth,” he says.Standing next to him is his…
