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 weekend programming for CNN Digital. 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. Through collaborative design thinking and transparent feedback loops, she improves the ways journalists tell and deliver stories to audiences.
Trammell has guided teams of producers through some of the world’s most pivotal moments, including 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.