Dana Varinsky, deputy editor for science and sports at Insider, is leaving to join NBC News as a health news editor.
Varinsky has been with Insider for over 5 years, previously working as an innovation editor, science and innovation editor and then as a senior science editor. Before that, she has served as an assistant blog editor and then as a blog and The Week in New York editor at Time Out New York.
She has also interned at WNYC Radio and has contributed to DNAinfo and The New York Times: The Local East Village.
Varinsky has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.A. in journalism and politics from New York University.
