Dylan Byers Profile

Dylan Byers is an American journalist and author who was a senior media reporter for NBC News and MSNBC and the author of Byers Market, a daily newsletter on the business, politics, and culture of media.  He is a former senior CNN reporter who covered the tech and media business centered around the Pacific coast for CNN Digital and previously focused on media and politics.

Dylan Byers Age

Dylan was born in 1986  in Seattle, Washington in the United States (she is 35 years as of 2021).

Dylan Byers Height 

Byers stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 8 inches.

Dylan Byers Family

Dylan Byers Parents

Dylan’s parents are Margaret Carol Lewis(mother), a retired director of Philanthropy Northwest, a network of philanthropists in the Seattle area, and Judson Thomas Byers (father), a founding partner at the Cedar River Group, a public policy consulting firm in Seattle. They both served as deputy mayor of Seattle, his mother from 1981 to 1989 and his father from 1998 to 2002.

Dylan Byers Wife

In October 2014 Dylan married Cara Colleen who is a freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles. She received her master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard. Her parents are Patrick D. Walsh, a partner in Commercial Property Group, a commercial real estate firm in Los Angeles, and Clare L. Walsh a retired administrator at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center.

Dylan Byers Politico

He started his journalism career as a media and tech reporter for Adweek. Byers later moved to Politico. In November 2011, he launched the On Media blog, which became known as a “scoop-heavy blog” for media and political news. He created and grew the blog, and critics praised it as “workaholic media-politics coverage,” specific to Byers’ niche of the intersection between politics and media.

Quick Facts About Dylan Byers

While working at Politico, Byers wrote ” President Obama, off the record,” an article providing readers a glimpse into an ‘off the record’ side of US President Barack Obama. For that story, Byers was a finalist in the 2014 Mirror Awards competition for Best Single Article in Digital Media. Byers has also worked as a research assistant to New Yorker writers such as George Packer, Philip Gourevitch, and Jane Kramer.

Dylan Byers CNN

Byers joined CNN in September 2015 where he covered the tech and media business centered around the Pacific coast for CNN Digital. He was also a frequent contributor to CNN’s Sunday media show, ‘Reliable Sources’. Prior to his focus on tech and media, he focused on media and politics.

Dylan Byers Pacific

In March 2018 Byers launched ‘PACIFIC’, a CNNMoney newsletter that covers the business, culture, and politics of innovation, and the people and companies changing the world.

In his editor’s note, Dylan said “PACIFIC is the newsletter for the Innovation Economy. It puts the power players in tech and media at the center of the action, and covers their moves and their interests, because those moves and interests signal where society is headed, it treats Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles not as cities on the periphery, but as capitals of the 21st Century. It works on Pacific Standard Time.”

Dylan Byers NBC

In September 2018 Dylan Byers joined NBC News and MSNBC where he covers media, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Noah Oppenheim, NBC News President, and Phil Griffin, MSNBC President, released a memo to staff that read; “We are pleased to announce that Dylan Byers is joining NBC News & MSNBC as Senior Media Reporter.

In this new role, Dylan will cover the meeting point of media, entertainment, and technology – from his perch in Los Angeles – and bring insight and context to this transformative moment. The impact of big tech is far-reaching – changing our culture, politics, commerce, and much more. Naturally, Dylan will focus on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Netflix, but he’ll also keep a sharp eye on emerging players. His work will appear across all our television and digital platforms, including the newly redesigned Tech & Media vertical on NBCNews.com, and he will of course continue his essential newsletter. Dylan comes to us from CNN, where he covered media and technology and authored PACIFIC, a daily newsletter about Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

Byers will be joining us during an exciting time for our tech and business teams, who have amassed dozens of exclusives this year and are adding to that tally every day. Recent wins include stories on whistleblowers from Facebook and Google by Jo Ling Kent, the uncovering of more than 200,000 deleted Russian troll tweets by Ben Popken, the recent exclusive reporting on the origins of “QAnon” by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, and Claire Atkinson’s regular scoops. The team has also secured interviews with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and just this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Dylan Byers Salary

Dylan has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through his successful career as a reporter and author.

Dylan Byers’s Net worth

Byers earns an annual salary ranging from $ 20,000 – $ 100,000.

Is Dylan Dreyer leaving NBC?

Dreyer left NBC after serving as a weather anchor for over 9 years. She publicized that she left the station so as to focus more on her family especially now that she is a mother to three children. January 29, 2020, was her final day at the station.

Dylan Byers CNN

During her tenure at CNN, Byers worked alongside:

1. Brianna Keilar
2. Brian Stelter
3. Ana Cabrera
4. Victor Blackwell
5. Anna Stewart
6. Vedika Sud
7. Jake Tapper
8. Patrick Snell
9. Isa Soares
10. Lynn Smith
11. Michael Smerconish
12. Sara Sidner
13. Nick Valencia