Isolde Raftery
Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Managing Editor at KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Isolde attended James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and later graduated from Barnard College in New York City. She received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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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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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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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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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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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.
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PHOTOS: Makah Indian whale hunts from 1900s
The Makah Tribe held a final hunt in 1999, but has not since practiced its whaling rights.
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Second-grade teacher on Seattle shooting: 'He looked me in the eyes and shot'
Deborah Judd, 56, was one of three people shot on Sand Point Way on Wednesday afternoon. She is a second-grade teacher at Laurelhurst Elementary.
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'His eyes, he kind of looked at me.' Inside the mayhem in northeast Seattle
Two people were killed and two injured in a carjacking and shooting spree in Northeast Seattle Wednesday evening.
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2 people dead after shooting in Northeast Seattle
Seattle Police reported a shooting near 120th and Sand Point Way, a wooded residential area of northeast Seattle.
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Jay Inslee says Boeing blackmailed Washington state in Daily Show interview
They 'put a gun to your ribs. You’re going to lose 20,000 jobs unless you give us a tax break'