Brian Costello Deputy Director of Communications Contact Information Phone: (213) 736-1444 (desk); (213) 923-0609 (cell) Fax: (213) 384-1659 E-mail: brian.costello@lls.edu 919 Albany St. Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211

Prior to joining the Loyola Law School Los Angeles staff as deputy director of communications in June 2006, Brian Costello worked as a reporter, editor and producer at an array of media outlets. Most recently, he spent five years as a talk-show producer for Telepictures Productions, focusing on single-topic programs drawn from topical news headlines. He was an overnight assignment editor at CBS 2 Chicago, where he was responsible for prioritizing story coverage and directing news crews. Before that, he was a writer, producer and editor for a variety of news and magazine websites. He edited TCPalm.com, the online home of a media group that includes NBC 5 West Palm Beach and wrote a weekly technology column that appeared in Scripps Howard newspapers. Costello has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the managing editor of The Daily Illini.