Kara Scannell is an American journalist and financial reporter based in Washington, D.C. Kara Scannell is a political correspondent at CNN. ^{[3] [1] [2]} Kara Scannell has previously worked with the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times . ^[3]

Kara Scannell is a native of New York. She has a pug named Finn and runs an Instagram account on his behalf. ^[15]

Kara Scannell received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and Economics from Fordham University. ^{[3] [2]} While there, she began freelancing for 1010WINS, a New York City radio station. ^[3]

Kara Scannell l began her career at CNNfn, a CNN subsidiary that focused on financial news. She left CNN to work at The Wall Street Journal where she covered private equity and corporate finance. ^[3]

In 2010, Kara Scannell joined the Financial Times. While there, she served as their U.S. investigations correspondent, reporting on tax evasion schemes, cyber security breaches and white-collar crime. ^[3] She later became FT's United States. senior finance correspondent, writing extensively about law enforcement investigations into financial institution.

In addition, Scannell covered several insider trading trials and credit crises.

^[3] She revealed systematic lapses in oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission which could have uncovered the Madoff Ponzi scheme. As FT's Federal court reporter, she covered criminal trials including the Merrill Lynch bankers involved in the Enron scandal and Martha Stewart's criminal trial. ^[3]

In 2017, Kara Scannell joined CNN. ^[3]

Scannell has a highly engaged audience on Twitter where she tweets mostly about Politics and boasts over 11,000 followers. Her Instagram is private, but she runs an account for her dog Finn and it has well over 5,000 followers. ^[1][15][16]

Scannell won the 2015 Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for breaking news for the Financial Times' coverage of the flash crash trader. ^{[3] [2]}

While working at the Wall Street Journal, she and her team were nominated as a finalist in the National Affairs category for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. ^{[3] [2]}

Kara Scannell has made an appearance on the following programs: ^[17]