Emilee Arnold is a visual journalist currently with The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a recent (May 2025) graduate of Western Kentucky University in the Mahurin Honors College in her home city of Bowling Green, KY. 

She has previously held internships with The Chautauquan Daily in western New York and the Appalachian News-Express covering a five-county range in eastern Kentucky, as well as positions on student publications at Western Kentucky University. She's passionate about working in multiple forms of media, from still photo to audio and video.

She is a 2025 Hearst National Journalism Awards first-place winner, 2023 CPOY finalist and winner of three Kentucky Press Association awards. 


To get in touch, contact her at: 

emilee.arnold717@topper.wku.edu 

or on Instagram @emilee.arnold



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