{"id":502027,"date":"2026-10-20T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502027\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:54:08","slug":"cnn-anchor-christiane-amanpour-leaving-network-after-43-years-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502027\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour leaving network after 43 years \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longtime CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, who began as an entry-level assistant and rose to become one of the most visible correspondents and anchors on TV<\/a>, reporting from war zones and hot spots for decades, will be leaving the network after 43 years.<\/p>\n

Amanpour, the network\u2019s chief international anchor, will scale back her daily show, \u201cAmanpour,\u201d on CNN International to once a week at the beginning of 2027, and end it in May, leaving the network the following month. She said in a statement Monday that she looks forward to \u201cinteresting new projects down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanpour, 68, also will end her PBS show, \u201cAmanpour & Co,\u201d at the end of the year, she said in her statement, shared by CNN. She will continue her podcast, \u201cThe Ex Files,\u201d with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin, a former U.S. diplomat.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter many months of thought and a few sleepless nights, I have decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43 fantastic years!\u201d Amanpour said. She added she would \u201calways be rooting for CNN and maintaining its history of independent journalism. Remember: Always be truthful, not neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n

No reason given for her departure<\/p>\n

Amanpour did not give a reason for her departure, nor did she specifically mention changes at her network. But her exit coincides with a new era at CNN as it comes under a new owner, Skydance. After a yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Oct. 6. The merger unites under one roof two giants in TV news \u2014 CBS and CNN. <\/p>\n

On a personal front, Amanpour has spoken openly about her 2021 diagnosis of ovarian cancer and two later recurrences, calling it \u201cthe invisible killer.\u201d She has urged others to \u201cget all the scans that you can.\u201d <\/p>\n

Amanpour joined CNN as an assistant in Atlanta in 1983. In his own message Monday, CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, wrote that at the time, her promise was not universally appreciated. \u201cFamously, one of her bosses told her back then that she didn\u2019t have what it took to become a foreign correspondent \u2014 or to hold any on-air role at all,\u201d Thompson wrote. \u201cBoy, did she prove him wrong!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fame came during the first Gulf War<\/p>\n

Amanpour became a reporter and an international correspondent seven years later. She earned fame in the early 1990s, covering the Gulf War, conflict in the Middle East and many other hot spots. War reporting is \u201ca sense of mission, it\u2019s a sense of purpose, it\u2019s a sense of being able to tell a story,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She aimed to bring international news \u2014 including complicated stories \u2014 to American viewers. \u201cI\u2019ve never believed that things are too complicated to put on American television,\u201d she told The Associated Press in 2023. “I\u2019ve never talked down to an audience. I\u2019ve never believed that they just want to know what\u2019s happening in their backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanpour also noted that her upbringing gave her a unique perspective. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of my upbringing \u2014 I\u2019m half-Iranian and half-British \u2014 I\u2019ve had the great privilege of being able to see the world from two very distinct perspectives,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve always spoken out about the need to bridge gaps. I know we can live in a world that\u2019s not 100% tribalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her remarks Monday, Amanpour thanked her field crews and show teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my very first big exciting assignment covering the first Gulf War, to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran and all the points in between, it\u2019s the teams and the camaraderie that counted so much,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas we together battled to seek the facts, the evidence and the humanity, so that CNN could always broadcast the truth about the world and to the world, without fear nor favor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, who began as an entry-level assistant and rose to become one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,4509],"class_list":["post-502027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}