Kayla Tausche Biography
Kayla Tausche is a broadcast journalist from the United States working as a reporter on the Biden administration, Cabinet agencies, and elections for CNBC as an anchor and senior White House correspondent. She is also a fill-in anchor for CNBC’s Business Day programming, and she previously worked as a co-host for CNBC’s 2020 election night coverage and Inauguration Day dayside programming.
How old is Kayla Tausche? – Age
She is 34 years old as of 17 July 2020. She was born Kayla McCall Tausche in 1986 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Kayla Tausche Family
She was born to Karen C. Tausche and Kurt C. Tausche of Atlanta. Her father owns a brand development and advertising agency there. She is the daughter-in-law of Dr. Lisa L. Izant, vice president of the Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District school board, and Dr. Timothy H. Izant, an orthopedic surgeon at Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists in DeWitt, N.Y.
Did Kayla Tausche have a Baby? – Husband
She is married to Jeffrey Jacob Izant. The couple married at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. Msgr. Francis G. McNamee, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. Her husband works as a law clerk for Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Reena Raggi. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a law degree from Columbia. The couple has a daughter, named Catherine Clancy Izant on September 7, 2018.
Kayla Tausche Education
In 2004, she received her diploma from Greater Atlanta Christian School. She went on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business journalism and international politics in 2008. She was recognized for her extensive research into how international newspapers covered the transition of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule. Tausche is a member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s alumni board of directors.
Kayla Tausche Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Kayla Tausche Career
She worked as a correspondent for the network on election night in 2016 in Colorado and in 2012 in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Her reporting provides essential, behind-the-scenes information on policy developments, based on a vast network of political sources. She secured exclusive interviews with Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during the Trump administration, in addition to interviewing foreign leaders and executives from the world’s largest companies on a regular basis.
Following the US Capitol insurgency on January 6, 2021, Tausche broke the news that top officials were having exploratory conversations about removing President Trump from office. During President Trump’s official tour of Asia in 2017, she took viewers behind closed doors in trade negotiations with Europe, Canada, Mexico, and China, and provided live reports around the clock from the G-20 in Osaka, Japan, the G-7 in Quebec City, and Seoul and Beijing. She also reported from London that global central banks were not intervening during a market rout in the aftermath of the 2016 Brexit vote.
Her long-form investigations into the White House’s flawed airport virus screening program and failure to deliver on an $84 billion economic pledge to the state of West Virginia were nominated for Emmy, Gracie, Polk, Livingston, and Loeb awards. Tausche also co-hosted Squawk Alley, a show from the New York Stock Exchange that focused on the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, from 2014 to 2017. She covered the initial public offerings of Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and Snapchat in that capacity. She covered the banking industry and its evolution after the 2008 financial crisis when she joined CNBC in 2011. Tausche began her career in Brussels with the Associated Press and later in London and New York with the Financial Times Group.