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Alisyn Camerota will exit CNN. Her last show will be Sunday afternoon.
Camerota announced the news on social media just hours before her final show. In a brief message, the news anchor encouraged fans to tune in at 1:50 p.m. PT for her sign off.
Camerota anchored CNN’s morning show New Day from 2015 to 2021. Since then, she has hosted and co-hosted programs such as CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell and CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper and Laura Coates. More recently, she became a floating political commentator for the network, as well as a correspondent for The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
On air later Sunday, Camerota said CNN had provided her “the kind of peak career experiences that I had dreamed of since I was a teenager,” adding that “the journalists at CNN are the very best in the entire news business, and it’s been an honor to have been their colleague.”
Fellow correspondent Wolf Blitzer told Camerota that she has been “not only a good friend, but a colleague and an outstanding journalist” and that “I know whatever your next challenges and adventures will be, they will be exciting and wonderful.”
Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide said in a statement that Camerota “is a rare talent with the ability to interview world leaders and everyday heroes with both strength and empathy. She’s been a wonderful colleague at CNN for more than a decade, and we will be cheering her on in her new pursuits where she will surely find much success.”
Prior to CNN, Camerota worked for 16 years in several roles at Fox News, including Fox & Friends and Fox & Friends Weekends. She is also the author of a novel, Amanda Wakes Up, and a memoir, Combat Love.
Camerota announced in September that her husband of 23 years, Tim Lewis, passed away from pancreatic cancer.
“The kids and I are still getting our bearings,” she wrote on social media at the time. “He was a phenomenal father, husband, friend and role model and the rest of us are left trying to follow in his footsteps. … Tim imbued us with a lot of strength and stability and we’re determined to try to emulate those qualities of his.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Camerota and CNN for further comment on her departure.
Dec. 8, 2:09 p.m. Updated with Camerota, Blitzer and Thompson’s on-air statements.