Kayla Tausche

Tausche served as a substitute anchor for Squawk Box, Squawk on the Street and Power Lunch. and from May 2, 2014 until April 2017 she was a co-anchor of Squawk Alley.

Tausche joined CNBC in January 2011 as a general assignment reporter covering corporate finance and deals for CNBC's business day programming. She is also a contributor to MSNBC, Today, Weekend Today, and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Tausche has received acclaim for her coverage of various high-profile stories. The Financial Times featured a picture of Tausche with media mogul Rupert Murdoch on its front page while she covered the News Corporation phone hacking scandal.

Tausche was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Greater Atlanta Christian School in 2004. She then attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a bachelor's degree in 2008 in business journalism and international politics. She received honors for in-depth research for analyzing the way international newspapers covered the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule.

Kayla McCall Tausche (/ˈ t aʊ ʃ i / , born July 17, 1986) is an American broadcast journalist. She has reported for CNBC since 2011. She is one of the station's political reporters and is based in Washington, D.C..