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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Business
Microsoft puts $500M toward housing crisis; says tech partly to blame for homelessness
President Brad Smith connected the tech boom with homelessness and lack of affordable housing.
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Arts & Life
Were you there? Seattle threw the viaduct an epic goodbye party
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Politics
Requiem for a viaduct
It was like a bad boyfriend. Loud. Dirty. Unstable.
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Law & Courts
VIDEO: Graphic police shooting footage shows chaotic scene on Seattle's Aurora Ave
The suspect's voice emerges from the chaos, hard to catch upon first listen: “I’m not reaching.”
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Environment
Coyote sightings on the rise in Seattle
Coyotes have roamed Seattle since the 1950s. As wolves were eradicated in the early 1900s, coyotes started filling the space.
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Arts & Life
9-1-1 lines still down across Seattle area. Here's what to do
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Environment
Rare tornado touches down near Seattle
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Arts & Life
This is Jane, and this is her delightful Instagram feed. (You’re welcome.)
Meet Jane. She is 22 years old, has Down syndrome (she's proud of that extra chromosome) and has one of the most seriously LOL but also inspiring Insta accounts we’ve encountered. So we’re sharing with you, because this made us chin up and remember that not all is gray in the world.
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Environment
10 sea lions have been shot to death: What we know and don’t know
On Thanksgiving Day, a sea lion carcass was found in West Seattle, its decomposing body resting against the Water Taxi dock. A necropsy found that it had been shot five times with two types of bullets. This was one of 10 sea lions that have been shot and killed in Puget Sound this season.
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Law & Courts
Aloha? No, sorry, that was Algona. Those potato chips are not Hawaiian
A man has sued the maker of Hawaiian Snacks potato chips after learning that they are made in Algonoa, Washington. Not Hawaii.