Randi Kaye Biography
Randi Kaye is an American Emmy Award-winning correspondent and anchor/reporter working for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been working network since December 2004.
Randi Kaye Age
Kaye is 55 years of 2022. She was born on November 19, 1967, in New York City, United States.
Randi Kaye Height
Kaye stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches.
Randi Kaye Family
Kaye was born and raised by her parent, Joyce Taffer Kaye her mother, and her father was called Gilbert D. Kaye. Who died in 2002 as a result of committing suicide. She was brought alongside her sisters namely Jody and Jerry. Moreover, Randi has a brother named Evan.
Randi Kaye Husband
Kaye is happily married to her long-time boyfriend named Ross Holland.
Randi Kaye’s Net Worth
Kaye has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an anchor/reporter.
Randi Kaye Salary
She earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Randi Kaye Education
Kaye graduated from Boston University with Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism in the year 1989. While at the University, she was part of the sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority.
Randi Kaye Career
Kaye works for CNN where she serves as an Emmy Award-winning correspondent. While at the station Randi has covered breaking news in addition to providing in-depth investigative reports. Furthermore, Kaye reported on the presidential campaigns of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. She also covered Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration and anchored from Washington D.C in 20113.
Moreover, Randi has also hosted and reported CNN documentaries on the decade-long mystery of British toddler Madeleine McCann, and the LAPD manhunt for Christopher Dorner. In addition to that, she covered the attack on the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, WI as well as the shooting massacre inside the movie theatre in Aurora. In 2011, Kaye reported on the scene of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords from Arizona.
Additionally, she anchored the day Osama bin Laden was killed from Ground Zero in New York City. Later in the same year, Kaye covered the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray. Furthermore, she spent three months investigating and reporting on the BP Oil Spill in New Orleans in 2011. Rande also reported live coverage of the spill for Anderson Cooper 360.
She also reported on Michael Jackson’s death, providing viewers with breaking news and exclusive information in 2009. In addition to that, in 2008, she traveled to report on Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Alaska.
In 2016, during the Sago Mine tragedy, Kaye anchored live for five hours straight through the night and was still live on the air as family members learned just one of their loved ones had survived. Later, in 2005 she reported live from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, delivering nightly investigative reports for CNN prime-time shows.
Randi Kaye WCCO-TV
Prior to joining CNN, Kaye was working at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis serving as an anchor for 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. Moreover, she reported on Jesse Ventura’s gubernatorial campaign and the arrest of the September 11th terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
Previously was working at ABC affiliate KATV where she covered the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater investigation. Furthermore, she was working for ABC affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas where she reported and anchored for Good Morning Texas. Before that, Randi was working for ABC in New York City. While at the station she was working alongside former World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings for five years.
Randi Kaye Awards
Kaye’s hard work has enabled her to win a national Emmy for her CNN investigation on infertility drugs being sold on the black market in 2006. Additionally, she has played a very important role in the network’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010 and of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Randi also won a Headliner Award for the series, “Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think.” in 2011. Moreover, she was awarded an NLGJA and GLAAD award for her reporting on the “Sissy Boy Experiment” for Anderson Cooper 360.
Randi Kaye CNN
Kaye is working at CNN where She works alongside other famous CNN meteorologists, anchors, and reporters including;
- Nia-Malika Henderson
- Melanie Hicken
- Kristen Holmes
- Joe Johns
- Athena Jones
- Jomana Karadsheh
- Alison Kosik
- Kyung Lah
- Ed Lavandera
- MJ Lee
- Oren Liebermann
- Kristie Lu Stout
- Suzanne Malveaux
- Phil Mattingly
Randi Kaye Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She has over 7k followers on Instagram, over 12k followers on Facebook, and over 31k followers on her Twitter accounts.