Senior Producer, Programming & Distribution
CNN
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Kendall Trammell is a digital news leader focused on finding and cultivating audiences wherever they are on the internet. She is a senior producer at CNN where she leads platform planning for CNN’s audiences online. Based in Atlanta, Trammell coordinates with teams to create engaging frames into the day's top news through headlines, alerts and social posts that appear on and off CNN's platforms.
Trammell has guided teams of producers through some of the world’s most pivotal moments, including Israel launching war against Hamas, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the protests that followed George Floyd’s death and the global response to Covid-19. Her work in breaking news, audience development and content strategy led to CNN's audience records, including reaching highs on mobile.
Also a content creator, Trammell has years of experience reporting on both culture and news. She launched CNN's first entertainment newsletter Pop Life Chronicles and guest hosted the cable network's digital show Pop Life Pop Off. Trammell is frequently tapped for brainstorming, planning and executing innovative ways for news outlets to engage with next generation audiences.
Trammell was one of the 26 journalism changemakers in the Online News Association's 2023 Women's Leadership Accelerator. She has also been both a mentor and mentee in ONA’s Student Newsroom.
Trammell graduated from the University of Georgia in 2016 and joined CNN a year later from Cox Media Group, where she developed Rare.us’ cross-platform video distribution strategy and also produced multimedia stories.
Friday, September 20, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT