Randi Kaye

Randi Kaye, born on November 19, 1967, began her television career at ABC in New York City, where she worked for five years alongside Peter Jennings. She later moved to regional television, first at KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she covered the Whitewater investigation and the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster. Kaye then worked at WFAA-TV in Dallas as a reporter and anchor for Good Morning Texas. Her career continued with roles at KMSP-TV and WWOR-TV, before joining WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, where she anchored the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts and was part of the station’s investigative team. During her time there, she covered Jesse Ventura’s gubernatorial campaign and the arrest of September 11th terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.

Kaye joined CNN in December 2004, establishing herself as an Emmy Award-winning correspondent and anchor based in New York City. She reports for Anderson Cooper 360° and CNN’s documentary unit, covering a range of breaking news and investigative stories. Her notable assignments include reporting live from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, securing the first television interview with the Abu Ghraib whistleblower in 2006, and extensively covering presidential campaigns, including those of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016. She also reported on critical events such as Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration in 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing, the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado in 2012, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011. Her work also extended to anchoring from Ground Zero the day Osama bin Laden was killed.

Over the years, Kaye has contributed to CNN’s award-winning coverage of major events, securing a national Emmy in 2006 for her investigation into infertility drugs sold on the black market. She was part of the team recognized with a Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010. She also received a Headliner Award in 2011 for the series “Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think” and GLAAD and NLGJA awards in 2012 for her reporting on the “Sissy Boy Experiment” for Anderson Cooper 360°. Her extensive career reflects a consistent focus on factual reporting and in-depth investigations.