The Wall Street Journal has hired Aylin Woodward from Insider to be a science reporter.
She will start in December.
Woodward is a senior science reporter at Insider, where she covers climate change, earth science, anthropology and human evolution, and space.
She also covers the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on coronavirus variants, genetic sequencing, virus origins, and long-term immunity.
Before joining Insider, her work appeared regularly in New Scientist and the San Jose Mercury News, with bylines in Scientific American, Science, and BuzzFeed News. She is an alumna of the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication program, and graduated in 2015 from Dartmouth College with degrees in biological anthropology and government.
