Matt Egan,

Matt Egan is an award-winning reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN's television and digital platforms. He is based in the network's New York bureau. Egan has been with CNN since 2014, most recently as lead writer for CNN Business. In that role, he provided breaking news coverage and daily analysis as well as in-depth investigations. Egan also regularly appeared on CNN's television networks. Since joining CNN, Egan has conducted exclusive and news-making interviews with business leaders, government officials, investors and lawmakers, including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Gen. David Petraeus, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. He helped lead CNN Business's coverage of the Covid recession, the US-China trade war, the 2020 oil price crash and the Trump tax cuts, among other major stories. Egan wrote a series of articles on turmoil in the overnight lending markets that won the Best in Business award by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) in 2019. Another series of stories Egan wrote on the dismantling of General Electric won an EPPY in 2018 for best business reporting. Egan's months-long investigation into the Wells Fargo scandal was widely cited by other media outlets, regulators and lawmakers. His Wells Fargo coverage was honored by SABEW and the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining CNN, Egan was a senior reporter at Fox Business and a staff writer at the Trenton Times. He lives in New Jersey and graduated from The College of New Jersey.