About Emily

Emily Kostic is an online journalism, social media-obsessed senior at Rowan University. She is expected to graduate in May 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism with concentrations in Honors and Women’s Studies.

Her freelance work has been included in Courier Post, Burlington County Times, KYW1060, Philadelphia Magazine, US Weekly, Famode.com and Next American City’s blog The Daily Report.

At Rowan, she was the Web Editor of her college newspaper The Whit during the 2008-2009 school year where she lead the charge to redesign the paper’s online presence and push it forward into the digital age as CoPress‘ first client. The redesigned Web site was awarded a 2009 Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Online Pacemaker award.

Emily was named one of the top 100 college journalists in the United States for the 2008-2009 school year by UWire 100. In addition, Emily has been featured on The Student Newspaper Survival Blog, the Courier Post’s new media blog MoJo DoJo, and The Burlington County Times. Recently, Journalism 3.0 was awarded 2nd Place as Best Independent Blog by the Society of Professional Journalists in New Jersey.

During the 2009-2010 school year, Emily will continue to lead her college newspaper The Whit in the position of Editor in Chief.

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