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Jess Wisloski

Weekend Editor @jesswis Contact

Jess Wisloski is the weekend editor for DNAinfo.com New York.

Previously she was the New York City editor for Yahoo!, managing homepage news stories in the metropolis.

Jess started her journalism career at 12, when she founded and published the EMS Eagle at her middle school in Vermont. It folded within a year.

She later graduated from New York University, cut her journalistic teeth at local newsweeklies, including the Village Voice, the Villager and the Brooklyn Papers.

She worked as a desk clerk/stringer for the New York Times, then was hired in 2005 as a staffer at the New York Daily News, where she reported on Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.

Her proudest work were two in-depth series: one on the growing Queens foreclosure crisis and mortgage scams; the other on displacement of local industries in the wake of city rezonings. She started working fully online at a housing nonprofit in 2008.

Fun Fact: Jess appears three times in the 2011 film "Battle for Brooklyn," about the Atlantic Yards basketball arena. Each time pictured, she is writing for a different publication.

Downtown »

May 16, 2012

Two Manhattan schools, and possibly other NYC sites, were targeted by a Texas-based man, sources said.

Jackson Heights & Elmhurst »

May 14, 2012

Police identified the woman as Stephanie Taveras, of Irvington, N.J.

Astoria & Long Island City »

May 13, 2012

A Brooklyn man was charged in the death of a 24-year-old man in Queens.

Upper East Side & Roosevelt Island »

May 13, 2012

Justin Smith, 15, was declared dead after police pulled his body out of the Harlem River.  

Bay Ridge & Bensonhurst »

May 13, 2012

A New Jersey driver, with a 3-year-old on board, lost control of his SUV on Saturday afternoon, cops say.

Chelsea & Hell's Kitchen »

May 13, 2012

Police say a man pretended to offer an elderly woman help finding a bus, before snatching her necklace.

Midtown & Theater District »

May 12, 2012

The New York Rangers won 2-1 in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick »

May 12, 2012

Neighbors of a deadly Bushwick fire say the young deceased woman may have been a drag performer.