Kiran Chetry Biography
Kiran Chetry (Kiran Carrie Chetry) is a former American television broadcast journalist. She was a cable news anchor for CNN’s American Morning. She reported from 2001 to 2007 and then anchored cable news at Fox News.
She attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland where she served in student government, competed on the swim team, and danced on the pom squad. She then enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park’s College of Journalism, there she joined the Alpha Pi chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority and she received her Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism.
Kiran Chetry Age
Kiran Carrie Chetry was born on August 26, 1974 in Patan Hospital, Patan, Bagmati, Nepal. She is 44 years old as of 2018. She is also known as Kiran Kshetri.
Kiran Chetry Family
Kiran was born to Hom Chetry and Nancy who is of Ukranian, Dutch, and German ancestry. The surname, Chetry refers to the traditional caste of rulers and soldiers among Hindus in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Her father belongs to this community. Kiran’s parents met while Nancy was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. Seven months after she was born, her parents moved their new family to the United States. She grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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Chetry was previously married to Chris knowles. They had met each other while working at WICU-TV where she was the main anchor and health report and Knowles was the prime time news anchor. Following her departure from CNN in 2011 the couple separated. they formerly divorced in 2013.
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Kiran Chetry Career
Kiran began her career in 1995 at News 21 in Rockville, Maryland. She later moved to WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was the main anchor and health reporter the next year. Chetry 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 went from WICU-TV to KXTV in Sacramento, California to work as a morning anchor and reporter.
Kiran Chetry Fox News
Kiran joined Fox News Channel in 1999. She joined the cable news network Fox News Channel as a general reporter in 2001, first appearing on March 8, 2001, in a story about eating ice cream. She was honored with the Making our Mark (MOM) Award from the Association of Nepalis in the Americas the next year. During her tenure at Fox News, Kiran worked as a rotating anchor for Fox News Live and the early morning news program Fox & Friends First. She then became a regular co-host on the network’s weekend morning news program, Fox & Friends Weekend in late 2005.
What Happened To Kiran Chetry?
As her contract with Fox News neared the end of its term in early 2007, the network negotiated with Chetry’s agent to renew her contract. It was expected to be renewed with her continuing to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend. However, the talks ended when Fox News claimed in a letter to Chetry’s agent on February 15, 2007, that she had demanded “that Fox News include a clause in her new agreement that would have been detrimental to other Fox News Talent.”
The network added that it would not renew her contract and that she was free to leave before the expiration of her contract, she exercised that option. Allegedly, she wanted a clause in her contract that would have had Gretchen Carlson, a co-anchor of Fox & Friends, fired. Her agent countered that the allegation of Kiran’s wanting Carlson fired was “absolutely false”.
Kiran Chetry CNN
Reportedly, CNN signed her within an hour of her release from the Fox News Channel. She began work as a CNN anchor and correspondent on February 16, 2007. That same day, she also served as a co-host on American Morning in the morning, and anchored Anderson Cooper 360 that evening. Chetry went on to substitute as an anchor for Paula Zahn Now and CNN Newsroom.
CNN’s President Jonathan Klein officially announced Chetry as the new co-anchor on April 4, 2007. On April 16, 2007, Chetry had her first American Morning broadcast. July 29, 2011 was her last day on American Morning and at CNN.
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She co-anchored with Errol Barnett a few late-night telecasts for CNN International in August 2014. Chetry has also recently been an infomercial presenter for Nutribullet.
Kiran Chetry Net Worth
Kirian has an estimated net worth of $700 thousand.
Kiran Chetry Height
She stands at a height of 1.7m.
Kiran Chetry Weight
Chetry’s weight is not yet revealed.
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Kiran made Maxim magazine’s top-ten list of TV’s sexiest news anchors, placing third on the list in 2006. Chetry was ranked as America’s sexiest female anchor and the world’s second-sexiest female anchor.
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Kiran Chetry: On Career Transition, Nepal and Journalism
Adopted from: http://www.nepalmonitor.com
Kiran Chetry: Let’s start with the recent convention of Nepali journalists in Washington DC. How was it unique in the sense that it was the first such meeting of Nepali journalists in North America?
Kiran Chetry: I really commend everyone that put that together. It is really great to be able to come together as journalists, especially of the same nationality, people with common concerns and common interests in covering the news. It’s great that they were able to organize like that. I was very honored to be invited to speak and it was also really interesting to hear some of the other speakers.
I think that it’s a small but growing community here in America and it’s wonderful that the journalists’ society was able to put that together. I think it was a great thing and I hope it will be the beginning of a very long annual tradition. Hopefully it will continue to grow, and more people will get involved.
You recently moved to CNN from Fox News. How has the transition been for you, so far?
Kiran Chetry: We started off with the tragedy of Virginia Tech – it was our first day on air when that story broke and we’ve also been covering a lot of politics following the debates and a lot of breaking news in the morning.
And the best thing about CNN is that we have global resources. We were able to do interviews and get reports from the only Western television journalist in Iran. We were able to have on the ground, real-time reports from Baghdad. I feel people who watch American Morning are going to get a very comprehensive view of the news— everything that is going on around the world and also very important things that happen here in the US. Being a part of that, to me, it is an honor.
How do you define and describe the nature of news in today’s world– the difference between hard news and light news, particularly after your transition from Fox News. CNN is considered more to be hard news-oriented. Isn’t it?
Kiran Chetry: I think that there is a broad definition of news, certainly. We take into consideration the top stories of the day, whether they are international, politics, unexpected breaking news about weather or a murder or something like a shift in policy. We have been dong a lot of immigration issues, we have also been doing a lot of issues, in fact, on American Morning about Asian Americans in the workplace and we have a special correspondent doing that type of work. So I think we have a very broad definition of what news is.