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dawn yanek

Dawn Yanek

location-pin New York Metropolitan Area

School: Fordham University

Expertise: Relationships, Entertainment, Pop culture, Health

Dawn Yanek

  • Appeared on more than 2,500 TV segments talking about various lifestyle, entertainment and relationship topics
  • Was a regular guest on a variety of national and local shows, including MSNBC News, ABC News Now, E! News, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, The Wendy Williams Show, Showbiz Tonight, The Early Show, Good Day New York, and various VH1 and TV Guide series
  • Actor who has appeared on various TV series, including Law & Order: SVU as a recurring reporter
  • Former relationships columnist for Stuff magazine
  • Former contributor on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza
  • Parenting blogger, Momsanity.com

Experience

Dawn is a senior editor at Reader’s Digest with more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor specializing in lifestyle, entertainment, health and relationships. As the editor-at-large for Life & Style Weekly for seven years and a spokesperson for various brands, she has appeared on more than 2,500 national and local TV segments talking about entertainment news, pop culture, fashion and parenting. She was also a spokesperson for Match.com and wrote the online guide “How to Find the Right Person in 90 Days,” as well as helmed a popular monthly relationships column for Stuff magazine. After the birth of her first child, she started the parenting blog Momsanity.com.

In addition to Reader’s Digest and The Healthy, Dawn’s work has appeared in Healthline, Today’s Parent, Real Simple, The Beet, Peloton’s The Output and more. She lives in New York with her husband and their two mind-bogglingly energetic kids.

Education

Fordham University

MA, 18th-Century British Literature

BA, English (graduated magna cum laude)

Articles

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