Isolde Raftery
Online Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the investigations editor at KUOW since 2022. 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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How Luma, an ancient cedar, has transfixed Seattle
Seattle is a young racehorse of a city, a mere babe at 172 years old, who propelled herself through the jet age and now a tech boom, amassing wealth and dreamers and high rises and artisanal bakeries that sell $11 loaves and no one bats an eye.
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Upscale grocery store Metropolitan Market to open location in north Ballard
Metropolitan Market, a boutique Seattle supermarket chain, is opening a 10th location in Crown Hill, in north Ballard, on August 30.
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Don't forget to enroll your kid in kindergarten like I did
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Megan Rapinoe, pink-haired soccer legend, announces retirement
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How the journey of one gun tells the story of many
Last November, a 14 year old boy shot and killed a fellow student at Ingraham high school in Seattle. The gun that student used traveled through the hands of multiple teenagers before it reached him, starting in an unsecured closet.
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Shakeup of command staff at Seattle Police Department
Command staff at the Seattle Police Department is undergoing dramatic changes, according to an email sent to the department on Monday morning.
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Man who stalked and threatened Rep. Jayapal to lose guns for 8 years
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Washington state man arrested in D.C. neighborhood where Obamas live
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About the gun that killed a boy at Seattle’s Ingraham High School
This is the story of a gun. It begins with a 14-year-old boy showing it off. It ends with another boy dying in a high school hallway.
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7 graphics on kids and guns in the Seattle area
Sixty-eight kids died by gun between 2017 and 2022 in King County. That's like three classrooms wiped out.