Lauren Lyster (born October 13, 1981) is an American

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who formerly presented ''Capital Account'' on RT and

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's ''Hot Stock Minute''. She also worked for

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and

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and now is a reporter for

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Biography

Lyster was born in

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. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism, with a double major in gender studies, from the Medill School of Journalism at

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. 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

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where she anchored a live daily show on the

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. She then worked as a correspondent and morning anchor at

in New York before moving to

where she worked for

reporting for ''

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'' and ''

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''. She covered national news stories including the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub terror attack,

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in Florida, wildfires in Southern California, tornadoes in Texas, the 2016 Brussels terror attack, the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack, and the

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Personal life

Since 2018, she has been married to reporter Carter Evans, ex-husband of

weekend anchor

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References

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