Danielle 'Dani' Miskell is an Emmy-winning journalist with eight years of news reporting experience.
She is a general assignment reporter for 10News and you can catch her during primetime hours from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Dani is also 10News' beat reporter on San Diego's East County schools, AAPI, and Native American Communities, consumer issues, and cost-of-living issues.
She proudly serves as President of the local AAJA chapter in San Diego.
In the past, Dani worked on 10News' morning shows. Some of her notable coverage includes the January 22nd storm, being the first reporter on scene to cover the dismantling of the Pro-Palestine encampment at UC San Diego, and the strikes at Rady Children's Hospital and Hilton hotel chains.
In 2025, Dani won her Emmy for an AAPI Heritage Month Special celebrating her Korean ethnicity. She also holds two Emmy nominations for her breaking news coverage of the dismantling of the Pro-Palestine encampment in 2024, as well as her flood coverage of the January 22nd storm. In 2024, Dani won first place in the Society of Professional Journalists category for 'Breaking News', on her coverage of the small plane that crashed in La Jolla, killing the pilot.
Dani got her start in sports reporting in 2017, working for a Los Angeles cable station. She then pivoted to general assignment news during the pandemic, eager to cover the lockdown and Black Lives Matter movement.
In 2021, Dani jumped to Eastern Iowa and took a Weekend Anchor/MMJ position, then moved on to an MMJ position in Lexington, Kentucky. During her time in Kentucky, Dani covered national stories from the historic and deadly Eastern Kentucky floods in 2022 to the Louisville mass shooting in 2023.
Prior to her journalism career, Dani worked at a private equity firm as a Marketing Associate. She was responsible for co-writing press releases, plus managing marketing materials for both the business development and investor relations teams. She also worked with the firm's global event planning team.
Dani graduated Cum Laude from Vanguard University of Southern California in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with an emphasis in Journalism. In 2008, she was the President of her university's Journalism chapter.
Dani is a California native who grew up in Monterey. She loves playing music and going to concerts in her spare time. Dani also has family in San Diego and is a proud dog mom to London, her Bichpoo puppy.
To email her your story idea, she can be reached at Danielle.Miskell@10news.com.
