A former high school journalism all-star has joined her hometown TV newsroom.
Lauren Kostiuk is the latest addition to the reporting team at Local 4 News (WDIV-TV). The alum of Shelby Township’s Eisenhower High School and Columbia College Chicago has been with the station since April.
A journalism class at Eisenhower High sparked Kostiuk’s interest in a media career. She became editor-in-chief of her school newspaper and was named Michigan High School Journalist of the Year in 2014.
The five-time local news Emmy nominee was an NBC News intern in college. She worked at a station in Champaign, Illinois, and the Indianapolis NBC affiliate before coming home to metro Detroit. Her roots in the region go back several generations.
As she wrote on WDIV’s ClickOnDetroit.com, her Ukrainian grandparents came to Hamtramck as children — and her grandfather Mike Kostiuk, played for the Detroit Lions in the 1940s.
Kostiuk posted on Facebook about her new job at Local 4 News: “I grew up watching this station. It’s where I first saw the power of local news and the impact of storytelling rooted in passion and integrity. Now, I get to be a part of that legacy!”
Writing on X in March, she tweeted that she had accepted her “dream reporter position.”
Contact Detroit Free Press pop culture critic Julie Hinds at jhinds@freepress.com.
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Reporting by Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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