[3] She joined CNN as senior White House correspondent in July 2023, and is based in Washington, D.C. Tausche was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She then attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a bachelor's degree in 2008 in business journalism and international politics.
She received honors for in-depth research for analyzing the way international newspapers covered the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule.
The Financial Times featured a picture of Tausche with media mogul Rupert Murdoch on its front page while she covered the News Corporation phone hacking scandal.
[18] Tausche sits on the alumni board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.