Kiran Carrie Chetry is a Nepali-born former American television broadcast journalist who, until 2011, was a cable news anchor for CNN's American Morning. From 2001 to 2007 she reported - and then anchored - cable news at Fox News.Chetry began her career in 1995 at News 21 in Rockville, Maryland. The next year she moved to WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was the main anchor and health reporter.
Prior to joining FNC, she was a morning anchor and reporter for KXTV in
Sacramento, CA, and the main anchor and health reporter for
WICU-TV in Erie, PA.
She received the Best Enterprise Reporting award from the Pennsylvania
Associated Press Broadcasters Association in 1997 for her series "Young
and Hooked," which looked at teen smoking.
She began her career in 1995 as a reporter for News 21 in Rockville,
MD.
She received a B.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of
Maryland's College of Journalism.
Grew up in Gaithersburg, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC.