Randi Kaye is an Emmy Award–winning correspondent for CNN, based in Miami. She joined the network in 2004 and has covered some of the most consequential stories of the past two decades, from presidential campaigns and mass shootings to major investigations and global disasters.

Kaye has reported extensively on the Jeffrey Epstein case, delivering exclusive interviews with survivors of his sexual abuse. She has covered multiple presidential elections, including Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the 2024 race between Trump and Kamala Harris.

Her passion for storytelling and long-form journalism has taken her around the world. Kaye traveled to Portugal and the UK to host a documentary on the decade-long mystery surrounding the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. She has also hosted CNN documentaries on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the 2015 Dannemora Prison Break.

Kaye has been on the front lines of breaking news throughout her career. In 2018, she was among the first reporters at the scene of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She reported from Arizona following the 2011 shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and anchored from Ground Zero in New York City the day Osama bin Laden was killed. In 2010, Kaye spent three months in New Orleans investigating and reporting on the BP oil spill, where she also anchored live coverage for Anderson Cooper 360°. She returned to New Orleans in 2025 to mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which she covered extensively in 2005.

In 2009, Kaye led CNN’s coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, providing breaking news and exclusive reporting. Earlier in her CNN tenure, she traveled to Alaska to cover Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. During the 2006 Sago Mine disaster, Kaye reported live for five hours overnight and remained on the air as families learned that only one miner had survived. That same year, she secured the first television interview with the whistleblower who exposed the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos.

Before joining CNN, Kaye anchored the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and reported for the station’s investigative unit, covering Jesse Ventura’s gubernatorial campaign and the arrest of 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. She began her television career at ABC News in New York, working alongside World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings for five years, before moving to ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock, where she reported on the Whitewater investigation and the death of White House counsel Vince Foster. She later worked at ABC affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas, reporting and anchoring for Good Morning Texas.

Kaye won a national Emmy Award in 2006 for her CNN investigation into infertility drugs being sold on the black market and another Emmy in 2018 for her contribution to the CNN special Finding Hope: Battling America’s Suicide Crisis, in which she shared the personal story of her father’s suicide. She also contributed to CNN’s Peabody Award–winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill, earned a Headliner Award in 2011 for the series Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think, and received GLAAD and NLGJA awards in 2012 for her reporting on The Sissy Boy Experiment for Anderson Cooper 360°.

Kaye is a cum laude graduate of Boston University, where she earned a degree in broadcast journalism.