Julie Hinds

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Julie Hinds

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.

1 week ago | freep.com | Julie Hinds

Lauren Kostiuk got interested in journalism as a Shelby Township high school student. She says she grew up watching WDIV-TV news and calls her new job a "dream reporter position."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.

1 week ago | freep.com | Julie Hinds

Metro Detroit native Jeffrey Seller's intimately revealing memoir, "Theater Kid," explores growing up gay and adopted in Oak Park, Michigan. Seller is scheduled to kick off his book tour May 6 at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield as part of the Detroit Jewish Film Festival.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Julie Hinds

About a year before his bar mitzvah in 1977, Jeffrey Seller was in Hebrew class at Temple Israel synagogue when the teacher, in the midst of talking about the history of the Warsaw Ghetto, asked whether anyone knew a place in America that had similarly poor conditions. Nobody spoke up, so the teacher gave the example of a nearby Oak Park neighborhood behind an A&P grocery story on 9 Mile, where the houses were small, not made of bricks and had no basements and garages.

1 week ago | freep.com | Julie Hinds

Poet Diane DeCillis had one of her works reach the moon in March. DeCillis's work is included in the Lunar Codex, a multimedia collection of art from across the globe. When Diane DeCillis looks at the night sky, it feels different now than it did before.