Matt Egan

CNN Senior Reporter

Matt Egan is an award-winning senior reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN’s television and digital platforms.
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About

Matt Egan is an award-winning senior reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN’s television and digital platforms. He is based in the network’s New York bureau.

Egan has been with CNN since 2014, most recently as a reporter and lead writer for CNN Business. In that role, he provided breaking news coverage and daily analysis, as well as in-depth investigations.

Since joining CNN, Egan has conducted exclusive and news-making interviews with business leaders, government officials, investors and lawmakers, including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.

He helped lead CNN Business’ coverage of the inflation crisis, the Federal Reserve’s emergency response to high prices, the turmoil at Ivy League schools, and the Covid recession among other major stories. He spoke with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman in his first interview after President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential race, and scooped numerous stories on the artificial intelligence boom, including on a first-of-its-kind White House meeting with Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

Egan wrote a series of articles on turmoil in the overnight lending markets that won the Best in Business award by the Society for Advancing, Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) in 2019.

Another series of stories Egan wrote on the dismantling of General Electric won an EPPY in 2018 for best business reporting.

Egan’s months-long investigation into the Wells Fargo scandal was widely cited by other media outlets, regulators and lawmakers; and it was honored by SABEW and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Before joining CNN, Egan was a senior reporter at Fox Business and a staff writer at the Trenton Times. He graduated from The College of New Jersey with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.