Kaylee Hartung is an American broadcaster. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she has served as a contributor for CBS News, ESPN, CNN, and ABC News. Hartung was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She graduated from Episcopal High School in 2003. She earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in journalism and politics from Washington and Lee University, graduating in 2007.
She was a CBSNews.com reporter on the daily Washington Unplugged program and featured correspondent for Unplugged Under 40. Following a summer internship with NBC, she began her career as an assistant to Bob Schieffer, which led to an associate producer position on Face the Nation.
She then worked at ESPN, serving in particular as a correspondent for SEC Network. In 2017, Hartung was hired by CNN. In 2019, Hartung left CNN and joined ABC News as a correspondent. In July 2022, Amazon announced that Hartung would return to sports broadcasting as a sideline reporter for Thursday Night Football.
Did Kaylee leave GMA?
ABC News correspondent Kaylee Hartung is reportedly leaving the news outlet to join Amazon as the streamer’s first-ever Thursday Night Football sideline reporter.
CNN’s Oliver Darcy broke the news in the Reliable Sources newsletter before the holiday weekend, noting that neither ABC nor Amazon would confirm his report. New York Post‘s Andrew Marchand previously reported Hartung as being a “prime candidate” for the sideline reporter role.
Hartung joined ABC News in 2019 as a New York-based correspondent after a two-year stint at CNN as an Atlanta-based correspondent. Prior to joining CNN, Hartung was an ESPN sideline reporter, based in Baton Rouge, primarily covering SEC football and college basketball.
Before joining ESPN, the LSU grad started off in TV news more than a decade ago as Bob Schieffer‘s assistant at CBS News. She later became an associate producer for Face the Nation, while reporting for CBSNews.com from the network’s D.C. bureau.