Hannah Meisel is a full-time state government and politics reporter for Capitol News Illinois.

She previously covered state government and politics for NPR Illinois and Illinois Public Radio, The Daily Line, and Law360, as well as a temporary stint for Rich Miller's CapitolFax in 2018.

Hannah also holds a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a reporter and managing editor at The Daily Illini. After college, she interned at NPR in Washington, D.C.

In 2020, the Washington Post named Hannah one of the best political reporters in Illinois, and in 2021, she won the Illinois News Broadcasters Association's Crystal Mic award for best small market radio reporter in the state. Hannah is a former host of WSEC-TV's weekly political roundtable program CapitolView and makes regular appearances on TV and radio stations across the state in addition to her role as a panelist and producer for NPR Illinois' State Week in Review.