Leila McKinnon is a reporter for the Nine Network lifestyle show What's Good For You and a regular contributor to National Nine News and A Current Affair.

She began her career reporting part-time for The Sunday Telegraph in Brisbane, while finishing a journalism degree at Queensland University of Technology. In 1993 she accepted a cadetship at WIN Television in Rockhampton, before moving to WIN's Cairns bureau. In 1995, McKinnon began work with the Nine Network, reporting and presenting for Nine's Gold Coast News.

After three years she became a reporter for A Current Affair in Brisbane. A brief stint on a short-lived consumer affairs program followed, before McKinnon moved to Sydney and returned to the news department, in late 2001.

In February 2005, McKinnon was appointed newsreader for Today and in August returned to National Nine News presenting the morning bulletin. In March 2006, McKinnon relocated to Los Angeles with her husband, Australian businessman, David Gyngell. Gyngell was formerly the chief executive of the Nine Network. It has been widely reported that he was also the godson of the late media tycoon Kerry Packer though this is now proved incorrect.

Since relocating she has traveled all over the country recording stories for What's Good For You.

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McKinnon has since returned to Australia as her husband David Gyngell is now the CEO of the _Nine Network.

McKinnon is currently filling in for Kellie Connolly on National Nine News Morning Edition and National Nine News Afternoon Edition while Connolly is on Maternity Leave.

Leila McKinnon started her TV career in 1993 where she worked in Rockhampton at WIN Television before going on to WIN's Cairns bureau. Two years later Leila began reporting and presenting Gold Coast News with the Nine Network and then moving to A Current Affair in Brisbane where she specialized in exposing con men and in 2001 moved back into the news department in Sydney. In 2005 McKinnon was presenting the National Nine News bulletin and in 2006 she is traveling all over the country recording stories for What's Good For You on the Nine Network.