Chris Libonati

Chris Libonati is Managing Editor at Central Current Digital Magazine, WAER's limited partners covering the 2026 primary and mid-term elections.
Libonati oversees Central Current’s editorial production and newsroom. He graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in magazine journalism and public policy. He worked for three years as an editor and a reporter at The Daily Orange, an independent nonprofit news organization run by SU students. He has worked as a journalist in Syracuse for the first six years of his career – first as a crime reporter, then as a City Hall beat reporter and finally as the first reporter at Central Current. Libonati can be reached at libonati@centralcurrent.org