Eleanor Fitzgerald

Eleanor Fitzgerald is a veteran and military communities reporter in San Antonio. Prior to joining The San Antonio Report, Fitzgerald reported on Texas politics for the statewide politics show Capital Tonight. She worked to document conditions inside federal detention facilities, the impact of the newly passed redistricting maps on the 2026 midterm elections and the reverberating effects of immigration enforcement on Texans. While completing her bachelor’s degree in international affairs at George Washington University, Fitzgerald was a part of the Global Bachelor’s Program, spending time in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Chile to study conflict reporting. While living in Santiago, she was an intern at El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, where she worked on exhibits documenting the role of journalists during the Chilean military dictatorship. In college she served as the contributing culture editor of the GW Hatchet, the student newspaper, and she was raised in Naperville, Illinois.

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