Brianna Keilar Biography

Brianna Keilar (Brianna Marie Keilar) an American-Australian senior political correspondent and anchor working for CNN in the Washington, D.C. bureau.

Brianna Keilar Age

Keilar was born Brianna Marie Keilar on September 21, 1980, in Canberra, Australia.

Brianna Keilar CNN

Brianna joined CNN as a correspondent for CNN Newsource. She was providing breaking news coverage and reports from the nation’s capital for approximately 800 CNN Newsource partner stations.

She previously joined Newsource from CBS News where she served as a reporter, anchor, and producer for a CBS newscast that aired on MTV, MTV’s college network. Keilar was a fill-in anchor on CBS News’ overnight newscast, Up to the Minute, and also a freelance reporter for CBS Evening News Weekend Edition.

Brianna Keilar Net Worth

Brianna has an estimated net worth of $9 million.

Brianna Keilar Awards

While covering Congress, Brianna earned the 2009 National Press Foundation Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for her fall 2008 coverage of the $700 billion bank bailout. As a general assignment correspondent for the network.

Keilar covered a wide range of stories, including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, she was the first CNN correspondent on the ground. Brianna spoke at the commencement ceremony for her alma mater in 2013.

Brianna Keilar Career

Brianna worked as a White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, and general assignment correspondent for CNN in Washington. She as well also worked at CNN Newsource as a national correspondent, in Washington.

She reported on the Obama administration from the nation’s capital and from around the world. In the post, she covered several key stories for the network from the government shutdown to Obamacare. For this, she was awarded a 2014 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association.

She reported on President Obama’s campaign, the Democratic National Convention during America’s Choice 2012 coverage. She also contributed to CNN’s Emmy Award-winning election night coverage.

Being a military spouse, Keilar began writing a column called “Home Front” in 2019. The column tells stories of military families and tries to bridge the civilian-military divide.

Brianna Keilar Education

Keilar joined Mission Viejo High School and later graduated in 1998 where she was voted homecoming queen in her senior year. She then joined the University of California, Berkeley where she was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 2001, Keilar received her dual bachelor’s degrees in Mass Communications and Psychology.

Brianna Keilar Family

Brianna was born to Glenn an Australian, and Miriam an American. Her family was stationed in Australia at the time of her birth. Together with her family moved to the United States in 1982 and settled in Orange County, California. Her mother later died on May 17, 2016.

Brianna Keilar Husband

Brianna shared that she was engaged to Fernando Lujan in July 2016. Lujan a director of the National Security Council at the White House. On December 31, 2016, during CNN’s New Year’s Eve special, Brooke Baldwin shared that Keilar and Fernando got married the previous evening in Las Vegas.

Brianna Keilar Divorce

Keilar previously married to Dave French whom he married on May 2, 2009. The duo later divorced in 2016.

Brianna Keilar Baby

Back on June 8, 2018, Keilar gave birth to a baby boy named Antonio.