Davis Winkie
Reporter and Senior Fellow, CNN
Davis Winkie is a Reporter and Senior Fellow covering national security and nuclear threats for CNN.
Winkie’s journalism career spans national security reporting, investigative work, and on‑the‑ground coverage of major military and geopolitical events. He was a Livingston Award finalist for his reporting on the military’s deployment to the southern border and received the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Award for his investigation into suicides within the Army’s tank community.
Before joining CNN, Winkie covered the White House, nuclear threats, and national security for USA Today, reporting from both Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Previously, Winkie served as the senior Army reporter for Military Times, where he led editorial partnerships with The Texas Tribune and ProPublica. His investigations prompted changes in federal law, internal military reforms, and the removal of senior leaders. Winkie also worked as a researcher for CNN’s fact‑checking division, The Row, verifying attribution and accuracy for television scripts, digital features, and long-form projects.
Winkie began his career as a historian, serving as a project archivist for the Atlanta History Center’s oral history collections and coordinating a Smithsonian traveling exhibit across rural Georgia as a Georgia Humanities fellow. A veteran of the Army National Guard and a current part‑time officer in the Air National Guard, he received the Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Award for Company Grade Officers from the National Guard Association of the United States in 2021.
