Education
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley.
Bureau. She previously worked as a White House correspondent, Congressional correspondent and general assignment correspondent for Cable News Network in Washington. Prior to that, Keilar worked at Cable News Network Newsource as a national correspondent, also in Washington. Keilar started in television news as an intern and production assistant at TeleVision for YoU Channel 2 in Oakland, California.
In 2001, she went to work as a general assignment reporter at KIMA-television, the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate in Yakima, Washington.
During that same time, she also worked in radio as a morning show personality on "Billy, Blue and Brianna, Too: The Morning Zoo" on 107.3 KFFM. In 2003, Keilar moved to New York to be an anchor, reporter and producer for Columbia Broadcasting System News on mtvU, a newscast that aired on Music Television"s college network. At Columbia Broadcasting System News on mtvU, she covered the 2004 presidential primaries and election from New Hampshire, Boston and New New York
Brianna also covered the 2005 NFL Draft for mtvU. Keilar was 23 when she filled in as anchor of Columbia Broadcasting System News" overnight newscast, Up to the Minute, for the first time. She was also a freelance reporter for Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News Weekend Edition before moving over to Cable News Network. While covering congress, Keilar 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, she covered a wide range of stories, including the 2007 Virginia Technical massacre, where she was the first Cable News Network correspondent on the ground.
Keilar is a 2001 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She received her dual bachelor"s degrees in Mass Communications and Psychology in 2001. She spoke at the commencement ceremony for Cal"s class of 2013.
Keilar was born in Australia.
She grew up in Orange County, California and graduated from Mission Viejo High School in 1998, where she was voted homecoming queen in her senior year.