Randi Kaye is an Emmy Award-winning anchor and correspondent for CNN/U.S based in New York City. Kaye joined the network in December 2004. Since then, she has covered breaking news in addition to providing in-depth reports for Anderson Cooper 360°.
In 2008, Kaye contributed to the network's political coverage by filing regular reports on issues relevant to voters with a focus on women. For the Sago Mine tragedy in 2006, she provided exclusive interviews with family members as they were first told their loved ones had survived. She reported through the night and was on the air five hours later as families learned the miners had died. Also that year, Kaye secured the first television interview with the whistleblower who revealed the Abu Ghraib prison incident in Iraq.
In 2005, Kaye reported live from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and gave viewers a unique look at the storm’s fury and aftermath in both New Orleans and Biloxi, Miss. She brought viewers exclusive coverage from the ground and from the air by joining food supply drops with the National Air Guard and riding alongside Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the man leading the humanitarian effort, in his Blackhawk helicopter.
Earlier the same year, Kaye was one of the first reporters on the scene of the Atlanta courthouse shooting.
Kaye joined CNN from WCCO-TV in Minneapolis where she anchored the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. While there, she covered Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial campaign and the arrest of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Kaye also anchored the station's coverage from Ground Zero on the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. She also created and hosted "4 Stories," a weekly segment highlighting Minnesotans making a difference in the community. Her television career began at ABC in New York City where she worked at both Nightline and World News Tonight. While at ABC, Kaye covered President Bill Clinton's campaign in Little Rock, Ark. She eventually moved to Arkansas to work at ABC affiliate KATV where she covered the Whitewater investigation, the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster and the death of Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley.
Kaye also worked at ABC affiliate WFFA-TV in Dallas where she reported and anchored for Good Morning Texas. At FOX affiliate KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, she hosted the nationally syndicated Everyday Living, and at UPN affiliate WWOR in New York City. Kaye was an anchor/reporter.
Kaye's most memorable interviews include Hillary Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, while one of her greatest reporting memories is flying with the Blue Angels at 700 mph in an F-18. In 2006, she won an Emmy for her investigation on black market infertility.
Kaye is a board member of Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, a group committed to educating the public about depression and suicide, and a recipient of the Lifesaver Award from the American Federation of Suicide Prevention.
She earned a degree in broadcast journalism, graduating cum laude from Boston University.
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