Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously, she was the station's Online Managing Editor.
She has worked for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up in Dublin, Paris, and 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.
You can send her tips and story ideas via email or, more privately, by Instagram direct message @isoldedenise.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Man with flares and a rifle shot dead at immigration jail in Tacoma
An armed man who had been throwing explosives at the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, was shot dead by police on Saturday morning.
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Talbott defense doubles down on rape versus consensual sex angle in appeal
William Talbott II, who was found guilty two weeks ago of murdering a young Canadian couple on an overnight road trip to Seattle, has asked for a new trial.
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Top quotes from Megan Rapinoe's speech (no, she's not running for president)
Was Megan Rapinoe, of the purple-now-pink hair and fierce penalty kick … tipsy?
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Health
Tupperware writes us a surprising email about a needle disposal story
Last week, KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reported on what to do with discarded needles.
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Joe Biden catches heat in Seattle over gay rights comment. But context may be key
Seattle might not have made fun of a gay waiter five years ago, but what about a trans waiter?
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Crime
GUILTY: Bill Talbott convicted of murder after family tree unearths his decades-old secret
This is the first time a suspect was nabbed using the combined powers of DNA and old-school genealogy.
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Law & Courts
Their smiles were 'defiant.' A cop puts a young black man in a chokehold
Josiah Hunter was 21 when the skinny cop with the orange-red hair put him in a chokehold and yelled, his breath hot on Hunter’s ear, “Stop resisting arrest!”
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Arts & Life
Seattle’s cheese-cracker addicted squirrel is traumatizing kids
Earlier this week, a Seattle mom posted a warning to a neighborhood parent group. “Beware this squirrel with the notched ear,” she wrote. “It rules over the playground at Discovery Park.”
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Education
HBO takes hard look at inequality in Seattle schools
Seattle schools got national attention on Friday night in an episode of HBO’s Problem Areas, hosted by comedian Wyatt Cenac.
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Arts & Life
Old photos of Black Seattle delivered in boxes: Help us ID them
In March 2015, tens of thousands of black and white photographs by Al Smith were donated to MOHAI — the Museum of History and Industry — in Seattle.