Ana Mušnjak was born in Rijeka in 1975. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, majoring in journalism. In the late 1990s, she worked part-time at the Rijeka bureau of Croatian Radio Television (HRT) and for the newspaper Dnevnik. In 2000, she was employed by the local television station Kanal Ri, where she worked as a journalist, presenter, editor, and editor of the news program. Seven years later, she joined RTL Television as a correspondent from the Rijeka studio. She ended her television career in 2019 and has been working as a freelancer since then.

Ana is the author of several documentary films, among which "Simke - How the Good Spirit of Rijeka Disappeared" stands out, premiered at Rijeka's Art Cinema in 2014, achieving impressive viewership. In 2020, together with Dino Sefaja, she founded the online magazine Razgovori.hr.