Leigh Munsil is the editor in chief of the nonprofit San Antonio Report.
Munsil has held staff writer, reporter and editor positions with The Dallas Morning News, POLITICO, The Blaze and CNN Politics, where she was the editor of CNN’s The Point with Chris Cillizza in Washington.
Munsil holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Arizona State University, where she also studied Spanish and served as editor in chief of the university’s daily newspaper, The State Press, which was selected in 2010 as an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker finalist for best four-year daily newspaper during her tenure.
She is also a 2024 Poynter Media Transformation Challenge fellow.