Priya Krishnakumar - Editor, CNN Visuals News Desk
Priya Krishnakumar
Editor, CNN Visuals News Desk
Priya Krishnakumar is an editor on CNN's visual news desk, covering race, inequality and policing.
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The FBI released its crime report for 2021 - but it tells us less about the overall state of crime in the US than ever
Oct 5, 2022
The FBI just released its 2021 Crime in the Nation Report, which is typically the most comprehensive snapshot of crime in the United States. But only 63% of the nation’s more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies submitted data for 2021 — the lowest level of participation the FBI has reported since at least 1979. Only 52% of all agencies submitted a full year’s worth of data, the FBI said.
Tea leaves unread: Jackson’s water crisis follows years of economic decline
Sep 2, 2022
What residents of Jackson, Mississippi long viewed as a looming crisis came to a head this week when torrential rains battered the city, causing the Pearl River to flood and its main water supply treatment facility to fail.
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination brings renewed attention to lack of Black judges on the federal bench
Apr 3, 2022
As the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has ignited a discussion about the historic lack of diversity on the nation’s highest court, her ascendance has also renewed focus on the absence of Black judges on the federal judiciary’s lower courts.
About
Priya Krishnakumar is an editor on CNN’s visual news desk, covering race, inequality and policing. Before joining CNN in 2020, she worked at the Los Angeles Times as a data and graphics journalist, using interactive and visual storytelling to cover a wide range of subjects such as wildfires, politics and pop culture. She was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team for breaking news in 2016.
Krishnakumar is from California’s Bay Area, and graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism.
