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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‘Don't go to a hotel room’ with a drunk man. Councilmember Kathy Lambert’s full KUOW interview
The King County Council member took issue with a KUOW story about a campaign event for Sen. Joe Fain this past Sunday, during which she was interviewed. Here's the full transcript of that interview.
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9 law experts on what Brett Kavanaugh means for the future of America
“The federal judiciary will increasingly be the place where the rich and powerful go to protect their wealth and power.”
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Seattle teachers approve contract: 10% raises
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Why are so many Washington teachers on strike?
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2 women found dead in apartment near UW
One of the women was still alive when building managers entered the unit.
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Women are linguistically more advanced than men. So why do we tell them how to speak?
When it comes to language, women set the trends.
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PHOTOS: 'Mad Max' smokescape envelops Washington state
The sky is ash gray; the lake is too. Wenatchee and Chelan, popular summer destinations for middle class Seattleites, look like the end of the world...
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The haunting conversation between the plane thief and the air traffic controller
“Hope this isn’t going to ruin your day.”
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Rogue plane takes off from Sea-Tac Airport; crashes on remote Pierce County island
At 8:30 Friday night, one of our reporters, Anna Boiko-Weyrauch wrote an ominous tweet:
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J50 has been found. Now biologists must figure out how to save this young orca
J50 is alive. The emaciated, 3 1/2-year-old orca had seemingly gone missing over the weekend, leading some biologists to worry that she may have died....