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. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Saint Joseph (informally St Joe) is the largest city in Northwest Missouri, serving as the County seat for Buchanan County. Burlington is the largest city in the US state of Vermont and is the shire town ( County seat) of McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 2200 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. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company