Anchor Brooke Baldwin is leaving CNN after more than a decade on the cable news network.
Baldwin announced his departure shortly during a thread in the air on Tuesday, he informs that he will leave the network in April. The anchor joined CNN as a freelancer in 2008 before fulfilling her “dream” of becoming a full-time correspondent, she said.
“I remember that I scribbled my name on a post-it and put it outside this temporary office, determined to fulfill my dream of becoming a full-time CNN correspondent,” she said. “I wanted to be part of the best of the best in cable news and journalism and, as a native of Atlantis, this would be my hometown team.”
Baldwin later thanked his colleagues and viewers at CNN: “I am very grateful for your loyalty and passion for the world we cover.”
The anchor also expressed her gratitude to viewers who sent messages of support when she had COVID-19 last year. Baldwin announced that she had tested positive for the virus in April. She returned to work weeks later, describing her time with the coronavirus as “relentless, scary and lonely”.
Baldwin’s work on CNN over the years has included coverage of the 2016 presidential election; reporting from places abroad, including Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and visiting Newtown, Connecticut, where she reported the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, her CNN biography states.
The anchor, who is working on a book entitled “Huddle: How women release their collective power,” said on the air that she will not start a new job immediately and that she is feeling “vulnerable”.
“There is just more I need to do, the more I need to do outside this place – outside the walls of this place, a place that I have been privileged to call home for 13 years,” she said. “And yes, we are still in a pandemic and no, I do not have a job that I am joining immediately. And yes, yes, I am feeling very vulnerable. “
Baldwin’s colleagues, other journalists and celebrities wished the anchor well on Twitter:
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