Lauren Kostiuk joins reporting team at Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV-TV
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.
Lauren Kostiuk is a new member of the news team at WDIV-TV, Local 4 News in Detroit.
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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