Biography
Arielle Emmett is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She is also the Director of Research and Assessment at IEIMedia, Inc., a private educational corporation that teaches intensive multimedia journalism each summer in Italy and Northern Ireland.
Emmett has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career as a correspondent for Newsweek in the 1970s.
After graduating with honors in pre-med and East Asian studies at the University of Michigan, she was selected as The New York Times intern for columnist William Safire and spent a summer in Washington, D.C. researching and writing about medical ethics and Chinese politics. Ms. Emmett later studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan while serving as a Newsweek stringer. She became a columnist and contributor to Orientations, Asia Magazine, and East Asian News and Features. Later she went to New York as an editor for Science Digest. Ms. Emmett then became a reporter and full-time features staff writer for The Detroit Free Press.
After obtaining her Masters Degree at the University of Washington (Seattle, 1981), Ms. Emmett became a science and technology journalist. She has held senior editor and editor-in-chief positions at Computer Graphics World magazine, America’s Network, and Wireless Integration, and was a ten-year contributing editor at The Scientist (www.the-scientist.com). She writes regularly as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The American Journalism Review.
Ms. Emmett was a journalism professor at Temple University and an Associate Professor, adjunct faculty at Drexel University's Department of Culture and Communications. An avid traveler and linguist, she also holds a third-degree black belt in Ryuku Kempo Karate. In 2004 she hiked the Vilcabamba mountains and The Inca Trail with her son, Emmett Arthur, and wrote a travelogue of their trip.
Arielle Emmett is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She is also the Director of Research and Assessment at IEIMedia, Inc., a private educational corporation that teaches intensive multimedia journalism each summer in Italy and Northern Ireland.
Emmett has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career as a correspondent for Newsweek in the 1970s.
After graduating with honors in pre-med and East Asian studies at the University of Michigan, she was selected as The New York Times intern for columnist William Safire and spent a summer in Washington, D.C. researching and writing about medical ethics and Chinese politics. Ms. Emmett later studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan while serving as a Newsweek stringer. She became a columnist and contributor to Orientations, Asia Magazine, and East Asian News and Features. Later she went to New York as an editor for Science Digest. Ms. Emmett then became a reporter and full-time features staff writer for The Detroit Free Press.
After obtaining her Masters Degree at the University of Washington (Seattle, 1981), Ms. Emmett became a science and technology journalist. She has held senior editor and editor-in-chief positions at Computer Graphics World magazine, America’s Network, and Wireless Integration, and was a ten-year contributing editor at The Scientist (www.the-scientist.com). She writes regularly as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The American Journalism Review.
Ms. Emmett was a journalism professor at Temple University and an Associate Professor, adjunct faculty at Drexel University's Department of Culture and Communications. An avid traveler and linguist, she also holds a third-degree black belt in Ryuku Kempo Karate. In 2004 she hiked the Vilcabamba mountains and The Inca Trail with her son, Emmett Arthur, and wrote a travelogue of their trip.