Laine Cibulskis is a second-year economics graduate student at the University of Missouri. She graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in May 2026. She is currently a Dow Jones News Fund data journalism intern at The Detroit News. During the fall of 2024, she covered international trade in Brussels for MLex. Prior to that, Cibulskis spent the summer in Washington, DC covering personal finance for U.S. News & World Report. Cibulskis has also covered business, politics, health and higher education.
As part of her work with WWG, Cibulskis contributed research to two New York Times articles, one of which was part of a series that earned the staff of The New York Times the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
