Brooke Baldwin announces she’s leaving CNN: ‘I just need to do more’

Brooke Baldwin announces she’s leaving CNN: ‘I just need to do more’

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Anchor Brooke Baldwin leaves CNN after more than ten years at the cable news network.

Baldwin had her upcoming departure during a on-air segment On Tuesday, she says she 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.

“I remember scribbling my name on a Post-it note and sticking it out of 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 an indigenous Atlantan, it would be my hometown team.”

Baldwin later thanked her CNN colleagues and viewers: “I am so grateful for your loyalty and passion for the world we cover.”

The anchor also expressed her gratitude to viewers who sent her messages of support when she had COVID-19 last year. Baldwin announced that she tested positive for the virus in April. She returned to work weeks later, describing her time with coronavirus as “relentless, narrow and lonely.”

Baldwin’s work through CNN over the years has included coverage of the 2016 presidential election; reporting from abroad, including Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and visited Newtown, Connecticut, where she reported on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, her CNN biostats.

The anchor, who was working on a book titled “Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power,” said on-air that she did not immediately jump into a new job and that she felt ‘vulnerable’.

“There’s just more I have to do, more I have to do outside this place – outside the walls of this place, a place I have been privileged to call home for 13 years,” she said. ‘And yes, we’m still in a pandemic, and no, I do not have a job in which I’m jumping right. And yes, yes, I do feel very vulnerable. ”

Baldwin’s colleagues, other journalists and celebrities wished the anchor strength on Twitter:

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