Dana Arschin
Dana Arschin joined the FOX 5 News team in August 2016. She previously worked as a general assignment reporter for News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn.
Dana traveled to Poland in 2018 to learn more about her ancestors killed in the Holocaust. She shot and wrote three Fox 5 Films on her journey. One of them, ‘The Forgotten Camps,’ won a NY Emmy Award. During her tenure at News 12, Dana also won a NY Emmy Award for her reporting on the city's cleanup efforts in Brooklyn during the 2014 snowstorms.
Dana grew up on Long Island, where she discovered her passion for journalism at a young age. She made her broadcasting debut in the fifth grade, reporting for her elementary school's first-ever news station— Jackson Broadcasting Kids.
Dana graduated Cum Laude from the University of Delaware with a double major in Spanish Studies and Communication. She also received a Master's Degree with honors in Broadcast Journalism from the New York Institute of Technology.
She is fluent in Spanish, conversant in Portuguese and a beginner in Mandarin. During her free time, you can find Dana flying on the trapeze, eating at new NYC restaurants and planning her next travel adventure.
She is also the proud granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and goes into classrooms to share her grandfather's story.
Dana lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.
The latest from Dana Arschin
Unmasked protester disrupts briefing on NYC COVID hot spots
A press conference from the NYC Health Department turned ugly Thursday after a protester interrupted.
NYC opening its own coronavirus testing lab
New York City is opening its own coronavirus testing lab in order to speed up test results.
Queens apartment building hasn't had gas service for 8 months
The tenants of a co-op building in Bayside are frustrated that the gas service has been out since January.
One New York veteran's story of being a witness to WWII history
This week marks the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest events in history-- the end of World War II. On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States, ending the conflict, a moment in time that got to be witnessed first hand by sailors aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on that fateful day.
MTV tight-lipped about locations for VMA performances
Host Keke Palmer says music fans should expect a great show on Sunday.
NYC education department has not released school bus plan as reopening approaches
As parents prepare to send their children back to school, how they plan to get them there remains an issue for many.
Centenarian sisters survive COVID-19 and Spanish flu
A pair of sisters have lived through two pandemics more than a century apart.
Moving companies swamped with customers trying to leave NYC
Fears of growing violence and the coronavirus have a lot of people choosing to move out of New York City.
NYCHA residents complain of dangerous living conditions in the Bronx
For one NYCHA resident in the Bronx, the pandemic has made her already difficult living situation even harder, with much-needed repairs to her apartment left not done.
Summer camp for children with cancer goes virtual
The pandemic has forced the Sunrise Day Camp Long Island to go virtual.