John-Erik Koslovsky

John-Erik Koslosky is an assistant professor of journalism and student news media advisor at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his transition to academia, he had a nearly two-decade career in the news business as a reporter and editor at newspapers and websites. His local newspaper journalism work over the years won multiple awards for investigative reporting, news beat coverage, enterprise reporting and business/consumer reporting.

At Commonwealth U of PA, he oversees the journalism program delivered across four campuses in Northeastern and North-central Pennsylvania. Since coming into the university's tenure track, he has redesigned Commonwealth's journalism program to center democracy in students' study and promote responsible accountability journalism and compelling fact-based storytelling.

His research explores the influence of economic factors such as ownership, profit orientation and newsroom union representation on the production of local accountability journalism.