Lauren Lyster

Lauren Lyster (born October 13, 1981) is an American journalist who formerly presented Capital Account on RT and Yahoo! Finance's Hot Stock Minute. She also worked for CBS News and ABC News and now is a reporter for KTLA in Los Angeles.

Biography Lyster was born in Irvine, California. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism, with a double major in gender studies, from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. During that time she focused on miscarriages of justice (particularly on false convictions for murder) under the auspices of the Medill Innocence Project.

She entered the sphere of journalism after a career in the financial services industry, having been a senior equity analyst covering the retail sector at Tiburon Research Group in San Francisco. She then worked as a video host and correspondent for Yahoo Finance where she anchored a live daily show on the Nasdaq.