Emily Haavik is a television news producer and a freelance journalist. She has written for the Duluth News Tribune, the Lake County News Chronicle, Essentia Health, Journalism Practice, the news website Perfect Duluth Day and Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival. She previously worked as an advertising copywriter at Swim Creative. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she received awards for her coverage of breaking news and for investigative journalism from the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest and the Associated Collegiate Press Best of the Midwest Awards.