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.