Danielle Leigh
Danielle Leigh
Danielle Leigh is an Emmy Award winning Investigative Reporter who joined the Eyewitness News Team in August 2017.
Early Life
She is an Investigative reporter who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University of Southern California in 2006.
Danielle loves traveling, trying out new hobbies, volunteering, and relaxing on the beach side.
Personal
Danielle Leigh is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter with the 7 On Your Side Investigates team at WABC-TV.
She is an Adventure addict and a Beach fanatic who was raised on Motown.
Danielle’s reporting has exposed unfair medical billing, unfair toll billing, questionable fees associated with a federal program, as well as uncovered safety concerns within Seattle's vehicle-for-hire inspection process.
While in @Seattle, she worked hard to give consumers a voice and help them fight back against unfair business practices.
She strongly believes in supporting her community.
She has worked to increase awareness about diabetes, helped raise money for uncompensated care for children experiencing debilitating illnesses and served on the board for Runway to Freedom, an organization supporting domestic violence victims.
In her free time, Danielle loves traveling, trying new restaurants, enjoying live music, snowboarding, relaxing beach side and cuddling up with her dogs, Sasha and Diego.
She lives in Manhattan, New York City.
Career
She is an Investigative Reporter at WABC-TV which is at Greater New York City Area.
Prior to joining Eyewitness News, Danielle was a consumer investigative reporter and anchor at King 5 News in Seattle.
Her reporting on government corruption and mismanagement has led to new laws and policy changes.
She also helped viewers tricked by unscrupulous business practices recoup thousands of dollars.
Previously, she was a Washington, D.C. based correspondent for NBC News Channel, covering Congress and the Supreme Court.
She is specialized in live breaking news reports, providing hours of ongoing coverage during events such as the May Day protests in Seattle, Super Storm Sandy in the Northeast, the tragic school shooting in Newtown, CT., and the Asiana plane crash in San Francisco.
Prior to News Channel, Danielle worked at KCRA 3 News in Sacramento, where she developed a reputation for uncovering exclusive enterprise stories.
Her reports led to a state investigation into a Sacramento produce company, a policy change for ride operators at the California State Fair, and exposed conflicts at a school district police department that became the focus of a Grand Jury investigation.
Social Media
She is very active on social media with about 2000 followers on her Instagram account.
Her Instagram name is danielleleighnews.
she recently tweeted ''Tweets are personal observations, not endorsements''.