Joe Antoshak

Joe Antoshak is a junior journalism major and creative writing minor at the University of Maryland. He completed the College Park Scholars’ Media, Self and Society program, in which he studied the influence of media on the general public, and is in his final year of the Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House program, where he studies poetry and creative prose.

He has worked as a news reporter and entertainment writer for The Diamondback, University of Maryland’s independent student-run paper, and has covered crime, science and technology, health, facilities management and city council. He is now The Diamondback’s news editor, and is responsible for developing and maintaining a daily budget, ensuring roughly 20 reporters turn in their stories, develop their beats and continue to improve as writers. He edits most of the paper’s news stories and is responsible for the content in all of them.

Joe spent summer 2014 in southwestern North Dakota, where he worked as a groundskeeper for a nonprofit organization in a town bordering Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Despite his current position as an editor with The Diamondback, Joe is a writer first — one who is still very much in love with the craft. Bad writing frustrates him and, when it comes to his staff reporters, disrupts him until it is corrected and its writer understands why.