About me
Kate Rooney is a technology reporter based out of CNBC’s San Francisco bureau, covering Amazon, financial technology, payments and venture capital for the network. She also writes for CNBC’s digital platforms.
Rooney won a National Headliner Award for her Celsius coverage in 2023. She joined CNBC in 2015 as a news associate before working as a producer for CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) and was most recently a markets reporter for CNBC.com.
She graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in communication and earned her master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where she received an Eric Lund Global Reporting and Research Grant to film and produce a documentary in the Philippines. She also worked as a multimedia reporter in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2015 with a focus on housing and politics.