About
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019.
On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive’s editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness.
He is also the executive producer of The Drive’s YouTube channel, which he relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year. Kyle is in charge of all programming and hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.
Experience
Kyle is a seasoned journalist, having spent half his career as a primetime news producer at CNN on Anderson Cooper 360 and Erin Burnett OutFront. Through his time there, he watched as audiences grew more skeptical of media while legacy companies failed to address why people were pulling away. In 2017, he quit his cushy gig to join The Drive as a writer and apply his skills to his lifelong passion.
As a writer, Kyle was responsible for some of its most ambitious, heartfelt, and consequential stories, from busting open an embezzlement scandal at a Porsche dealership that became international news, to exploring how a famed motorcycle hangout spot survived a massive California wildfire, to interviewing ex-Nissan CEO and international fugitive Carlos Ghosn from his hideout in Lebanon.
After assuming the role of editor-in-chief in 2019, he's pushed his team to not only cover the automotive industry with insight and original reporting you can't find anywhere else, but to look beyond the industry and bring forward stories that reflect, investigate, and celebrate modern car culture. He's also made Elon Musk mad on at least one occasion.
Education
Kyle graduated from New York University in 2011 with two degrees in journalism and anthropology. He also went to drift school once and did some “pretty good” donuts, according to Formula D driver Justin Pawlak.
