Media Moves

CNN hires Iyer as a news associate

June 8, 2021

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

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.

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