Brianna Keilar

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Brianna Keilar is an American journalist and the co-anchor of CNN News Central’s afternoon edition. She was born on September 21, 1980, in Canberra, Australia, to an Australian father and an American mother. Her family moved to Orange County, California, in 1982. She graduated from Mission Viejo High School in 1998 and earned dual bachelor’s degrees in mass communications and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001.

Keilar began her career in Yakima, Washington, at the CBS affiliate KIMA, then worked for CBS News as an anchor, reporter, and producer for MTVU, and did fill-in work for Up to the Minute and CBS Evening News. She later joined CNN as a Newsource correspondent and became a general assignment reporter in Washington, covering a wide range of stories including the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.

She won the 2009 National Press Foundation Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for her 2008 bailout coverage and the 2014 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for Obamacare coverage. In 2019 she started a column called Home Front about military families.

Keilar joined New Day as a co-anchor in 2021. She left the show in September 2022 as CNN launched CNN This Morning, and in April 2023 she became a co-anchor of CNN News Central’s afternoon edition (1–4 p.m.) with Boris Sanchez and Jim Sciutto.

Personal life: Keilar married Dave French in 2009; they divorced in 2011. She became engaged to Fernando Lujan in 2016, and they married in Las Vegas on December 31, 2016. They have a son, born June 8, 2018.