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Gayle King

2025 Speaker
Gayle King

Keynote Speaker | Co-host, CBS Mornings, Editor-at-Large, Oprah Daily

GAYLE KING is co-host of CBS Mornings. An accomplished television journalist, King interviews top newsmakers and delivers original reporting to CBS Mornings and all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. She is also editor-at-large of Oprah Daily, hosts a live, weekly radio show titled “Gayle King in the House” on SiriusXM and recently co-hosted CNN’s King Charles alongside Charles Barkley. King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, and worked for 18 years as a television news anchor for CBS affiliate WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, during which she also hosted her own syndicated daytime program. Prior to joining WFSB, King worked at several other television stations, including WDAF-TV in Kansas City, WJZ-TV in Baltimore, and WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist, including three Emmys. In 2018 she was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and in 2019 she was selected for the TIME 100, TIME Magazine’s annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world. The mother of a daughter, Kirby, and a son, Will, she currently resides in New York City.