Allie Kosterich-Salomone

Allie Kosterich is an associate professor of communications and media management at the Gabelli School of Business. She holds a PhD in communication from Rutgers University.

Dr. Kosterich’s research and teaching focus on media management and industry change. In particular, she is interested in understanding the transformation of media industries as a result of technological and social change. She does so by drawing on theory from both management and communication, as well as both quantitative methods such as social network analysis and event history analysis and qualitative methods such as interviews and textual analysis. Her work is supported by funding from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University where she is a Knight News Innovation Fellow.

Merging theory with practice, Dr. Kosterich has established an active research agenda that studies the interaction of media organizations, institutions, and new technologies. Her work has been widely published in leading academic journals, as well as in the popular press. Dr. Kosterich’s research and teaching interests stem in part from her professional media background, which includes management and production positions in newsrooms and television studios. Prior to that, she earned a BS in communication from Cornell University.

• PhD: Rutgers University, 2017
• Bachelor’s: Cornell University, 2009

• Media Transformation
• Media Management
• Professionalization
• Institutional Change
• Organizational Change
• Media Innovation

• Kosterich, A., & Fortunato, J. (2026). Making AI Work Intelligible in Sport Business Job Postings: Public Framing of AI Role Expectations. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-02-2026-0061
• Kosterich, A., & Ziek, P. (2026). Journalism's Diversity Crisis: Institutional Logics, Sensemaking, and the Gap Between Diversity Talk and Practice. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2026.2682274
• Kosterich, A., Saffer, A., Weber, M.S., & Kreiss, D. (2025). Network Histories: New Methods and Measures for Studying the Production of Communication. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2505981
• Fortunato, J., & Kosterich, A. (2025). Demonstrating and Communicating Artificial Intelligence Brand Capabilities: Amazon Web Services Sponsorship with the National Football League. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. 26(4), 786–802. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSMS-03-2024-0065
• Royal, C., & Kosterich, A. (2024). Coding competencies across roles: Computer programming practices in news media organizations. Journalism Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2340570
• Kosterich, A., & Royal, C. (2024). Institutional arbitrageurs: The role of product managers as a locus of change in journalism. Media and Communication, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7374
• Kosterich, A. (2024). Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur. Digital Journalism, 12(9), 1348–1376. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1903959
• Kosterich, A., & Ziek, P. (2022). Watching the Watchdogs: Media Firms’ Implementation of CSR Communication on Diversity. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 100(2), 373–391. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221122927
• Kosterich, A. (2022). News Nerds: Institutional Change in Journalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500354.001.0001