KAILYN RHONE

Multimedia Journalist

Kailyn Rhone is a finance reporting fellow at The Wall Street Journal in New York. She was previously a Reuters intern covering retail and consumer goods companies. She has a master's degree in business and economic reporting from New York University. Her work has also been published in Teen Vogue, Tampa Bay Times and more.

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She is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and has a love, passion, and drive for cultural storytelling to create change within her community. She graduated summa cum laude from Florida A&M University, a historically Black university, in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations.

Inside of The Journal's finance reporting fellowship,

Rhone is a reporting finance fellow working with the economics team. She reports on the unusual ways people are getting around the economy, such as people turning to live in their vans full-time due to the housing market. Her work has been featured on podcasts and the front page of the Journal's newspaper. She is currently based in New York.

She previously took MBA courses in accounting, corporate finance and economics to learn more about the world of business journalism to further enhance her multimedia skills (videography and social media marketing). She aspires to use her master's degree to report on stories and issues that are impactful to minorities from a business and digital lens.

Rhone interned for Tampa Bay Times, Texas Tribune, and was an emerging reporting fellow for ProPublica. She also is a freelance writer who has been published in Teen Vogue, YR Media, and The Tallahassee Democrat. As a Black journalist, she wants to address unspoken issues surrounding minorities in part of creating change for future generations to come.