Kayla Tausche — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Served as a Senior White House Correspondent at CNN from July 2023 to May 2025.
Reported for CNBC from 2011 to 2023, covering corporate finance and deals.
Co-anchored CNBC's Squawk Alley from May 2014 until April 2017.
Provided analysis and reports on the Facebook IPO filing, receiving wide coverage.
Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in business journalism and international politics.
Sits on the alumni board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Biography

Kayla Tausche is an American broadcast journalist with a career spanning major news networks. She began her career covering consumer and retail news at Bloomberg L.P. before joining the DealReporter unit of Mergermarket, where she frequently discussed mergers and acquisitions on CNBC and CNBC World.

In January 2011, Tausche joined CNBC as a general assignment reporter, focusing on corporate finance and deals for the network's business day programming.