{"id":275411,"date":"2026-06-16T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","slug":"kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyla Scanlon Joins CNN as Contributor &#038; Economic Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/\">Kyla Scanlon Joins CNN as Contributor &#038; Economic Analyst<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/\">https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 09:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\">cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 16th, 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Kyla Scanlon Joins CNN as Contributor &#038; Economic Analyst<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">NEW YORK, NY \u2013 (June 16, 2026) \u2013 CNN announced\u00a0today that\u00a0<strong>Kyla Scanlon\u00a0<\/strong>has joined the network as a Contributor &#038; Economic Analyst. Scanlon is an economic commentator and creator reshaping how people understand money and markets, educating and inspiring the next generation by making complex economic ideas clear, relatable, and meaningful.\u00a0Scanlon will focus on CNN Business, creating multi-platform\u00a0explainers that speak to audiences trying to understand the fast-changing economic\u00a0landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">Through her signature mix of analysis and storytelling, she covers the pressing issues of the day \u2013 from tariffs and artificial intelligence to the value of higher education and Gen Z\u2019s evolving role in the economy for her more than one million followers across platforms including\u00a0TikTok, Instagram, and Substack. In 2025, for the 2nd\u00a0year in a row, Scanlon was named to Barron\u2019s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance.\u00a0 Her\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling book,\u00a0In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work\u00a0was released in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\">Raised in Kentucky, Scanlon studied finance, economics, and data analytics at Western Kentucky University. Her first jobs included trading options and selling cars, which is where she saw the opportunity to make finance accessible. During the pandemic, she began using whiteboards and social media skits to decode markets and economic trends for everyday audiences. Scanlon is now working on her second book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyla Scanlon Joins CNN as Contributor &#038; Economic Analyst https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/16\/kyla-scanlon-joins-cnn-as-contributor-economic-analyst\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-16 09:19:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-275411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}