Emily Stone is an American journalist, a 1997 graduate of the Master's program of Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She has served as a Washington, D.C. correspondent (for the St. Joseph, MO News-Press), as a crime reporter (for the Burlington, VT Burlington Free Press) and as senior editor of the McMurdo Station Antarctic Sun. Currently working as a freelance journalist specializing in science and feature articles, she has contributed articles to U.S. News & World Report magazine and the Chicago Tribune newspaper.