Alisyn Camerota will exit CNN. Her final present will likely be Sunday afternoon.
Camerota introduced the information on social media simply hours earlier than her ultimate present. In a quick message, the information anchor inspired followers to tune in at 1:50 p.m. PT for her log off.
Camerota anchored CNN’s morning present New Day from 2015 to 2021. Since then, she has hosted and co-hosted packages similar to CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell and CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper and Laura Coates. More not too long ago, she turned a floating political commentator for the community, in addition to a correspondent for The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
On air later Sunday, Camerota stated CNN had supplied her “the type of peak profession experiences that I had dreamed of since I used to be a youngster,” including that “the journalists at CNN are the perfect in the complete information enterprise, and it’s been an honor to have been their colleague.”
Fellow correspondent Wolf Blitzer instructed Camerota that she has been “not solely an excellent buddy, however a colleague and an excellent journalist” and that “I do know no matter your subsequent challenges and adventures will likely be, they are going to be thrilling and great.”
Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide stated in an announcement that Camerota “is a uncommon expertise with the flexibility to interview world leaders and on a regular basis heroes with each energy and empathy. She’s been an exquisite colleague at CNN for greater than a decade, and we will likely be cheering her on in her new pursuits the place she is going to certainly discover a lot success.”
Prior to CNN, Camerota labored for 16 years in a number of roles at Fox News, together with Fox & Friends and Fox & Friends Weekends. She can also be the writer of a novel, Amanda Wakes Up, and a memoir, Combat Love.
Camerota introduced in September that her husband of 23 years, Tim Lewis, handed away from pancreatic most cancers.
“The youngsters and I are nonetheless getting our bearings,” she wrote on social media on the time. “He was an exceptional father, husband, buddy and function mannequin and the remainder of us are left making an attempt to comply with in his footsteps. … Tim imbued us with quite a lot of energy and stability and we’re decided to attempt to emulate these qualities of his.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Camerota and CNN for additional touch upon her departure.
Dec. 8, 2:09 p.m. Updated with Camerota, Blitzer and Thompson’s on-air statements.
