Randi Kaye

Randi Kaye (born November 19, 1967) is an American television news journalist for CNN.[1] She is based in New York and is currently serving as an investigative reporter for Anderson Cooper 360°.

Early life and career

Kaye graduated cum laude from Boston University with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1989.[2][3]

She began her television career at ABC, working for Nightline and then Peter Jennings. She then moved to KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Kaye also worked for WFAA-TV in Dallas as a reporter and anchor, KMSP-TV in Minneapolis where she hosted Everyday Living, WWOR-TV in New York/New Jersey and WCCO-TV in Minneapolis as anchor of the 5pm and 10pm newscasts.[2]

CNN

Kaye joined CNN in December 2004. In addition to being a national correspondent,[4] she is an investigative reporter for Anderson Cooper 360°.[2] She previously anchored the 1:00–2:00 pm ET weekday slot on CNN Newsroom. After several changes at the network and the departure of previous weekend mornings anchor T. J. Holmes, she took over as permanent weekend anchor.[5] In April 2013, Kaye left CNN Newsroom in order to return to her role at AC360°.

Bias reporting allegations

Kaye received criticism from Republicans and journalists for what they claimed was the biased and unprofessional manner in which she reported a campaign event held by Donald Trump in the 2015 Republican Primaries. In her report that aired on CNN on September 23, 2015, Kaye pointed out that more than half of the seats were not filled in the event and that Trump only emphasized polls that favored him rather than polls that disfavored him. Republicans and Trump criticized Kaye and CNN for failing to use the same factors in covering Democratic campaigns. CNN and Anderson Cooper, however, continued to support Randi Kaye and pushed back "defiantly" at Trump and his supporters.

Awards

Kaye won an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story for her reporting on black market infertility in 2006. The story, which was broadcast on Anderson Cooper 360°, covered how infertile couples chose risky and illegal ways to have babies due to the soaring cost of in-vitro medications.[6]

References

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/randikayeCNN/status/138050569049882625
  2. 1 2 3 "Randi Kaye". CNN.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  3. ↑ http://www.bu.edu/alumni/informed/class-notes/past-notes/submitted-2006/fall-2006/classes-from-the-1980s/
  4. ↑ "CNN Student News Transcript - August 15, 2011". CNN.com. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Rothstein, Betsy (2012-02-27). "CNN’s Costello to Atlanta". FishbowlDC. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  6. ↑ "Winners of the 4th Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting". emmyonline.org. Retrieved 2011-05-18.

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