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CNN hires Iyer as a news associate

Kaanita Iyer

Kaanita Iyer has joined CNN as a news associate. Before that, she was an intern at USA Today.

Iyer also served as a Washington reporter at Capital News Service and has also previously interned at CNN.

She was also a student worker at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an enterprise urban affairs reporter at Capital News Service.

She was also a copy editor and reporter at The Diamondback.

She also served as an assistant copy editor and then as a freelance reporter covering local government and human-interest news at Worrall Media.

She has also interned at Voice of America.

Iyer is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in government and politics and journalism from the University of Maryland.

Mariam Ahmed

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