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
Podcasts
Stories
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Superheroes V. Anarchists: Police Scanner Tracks Seattle May Day
May Day was supposed to be huge in Seattle this year. Television crews dispatched choppers. Police officers stood at almost every corner, poised for...
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Protesters Clash With Residents In Forks Over Dog Shelter
About 18 months ago, a volunteer at a Forks, Wash., animal sanctuary took photos of the shelter where she worked. She captured grim images of a rundown...
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Boring Bertha Digs Through Layers Of Seattle History
The most plausible theory about what stopped Bertha, the tunneling machine digging its way through downtown until last Saturday, is also the most boring.
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Raise The Roof? Seahawks Fans Shake Ground, Trigger Small Earthquake
Monday night’s Seattle Seahawks game brought a whole new meaning to that gravelly sports rally, “Let’s. Get. Ready to rumbuuuuuul.”
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VIDEO: Technicians Face Fear As They Light Space Needle
Perhaps the most terrifying moment in this video about lighting the Space Needle is when a technician says, “When the weather’s not cooperating, that’s...
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Nan Campbell, Bellevue's First Female Mayor, Dies After Suspicious Fire
When Don Davidson joined the Bellevue City Council in 1984, a fellow council member offered sage advice: “Get along with Nan. It’ll go a long way.”
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What Boeing Machinists' Rejection Means For Labor
In the hours after Boeing machinists overwhelmingly voted down an eight-year contract, a theme emerged: The machinists view themselves as a family that...
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Metro To Cut 74 Bus Routes If State Doesn’t Come Through
In a dramatic announcement on Thursday, Metro announced its plans to cut 74 bus routes by mid-2014 in response to the state's inability to pass a...
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Photos Down Under: A Light Beams From Puget Sound
Puget Sound, a spidery inlet of the Pacific Ocean, has often been derided as murky, toxic and so, so cold. But Ann Dornfeld, KUOW’s education reporter,...
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Councilmembers Will Represent Districts – But Which One Is Yours?
Seattle prides itself on being a city of neighborhoods – small cities wedged between two bodies of water – but its city councilmembers are elected by the