Carol Leonnig, a veteran investigative reporter for The Washington Post, is departing the publication for MSNBC.
Leonnig will serve as MSNBC’s senior investigative correspondent, as the network builds up its news division in advance of its split from Comcast and sister network NBC News.
Leonnig has been at the Post for 25 years, and she’s the latest journalist to leave the publication. She was lead reporter for the Post’s coverage of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and was part of Post teams that won prizes in 2024, 2017 and 2014.
Along with Philip Rucker, she wrote two books on Trump’s first term, including A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It. Her book, Zero Fail, followed her Pulitzer Prize reporting on the Secret Service during Barack Obama’s presidency. Puck first reported on Leonnig’s departure.
Before the Post, Leonnig worked on the staff of The Charlotte Observer and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
