Alisyn Camerota is leaving CNN. Their last show will be Sunday afternoon.

Camerota announced the news on social media just hours before her final show. In a short message, the news anchor urged fans to tune in for her farewell at 1:50 p.m. PT.

Camerota hosted CNN’s morning show New day from 2015 to 2021. Since then she has been a presenter and co-host of 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 channel as well as a correspondent for The whole story with Anderson Cooper.

Later on Sunday, Camerota said on air that CNN had given her “the kind of top career experiences that I had dreamed of since I was a teenager,” adding, “The journalists at CNN are the very best in the entire news industry, and that has been the case.” . “It was an honor to have been her colleague.”

Correspondent Wolf Blitzer told Camerota that she was “not only a good friend, but also a colleague and an excellent journalist” and that “I know that 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 strength and empathy.” She has been a wonderful colleague at CNN for more than a decade CNN and we will support her in her new roles, in which she will certainly have great success.”

Before CNN, Camerota worked at Fox News for 16 years in various roles, including Fox & friends And Fox & Friends weekends. She is also the author of a novel, Amanda wakes upand a treatise, Fight against love.

Camerota announced in September that her husband of 23 years, Tim Lewis, had died of pancreatic cancer.

“The kids and I are still finding our way,” she wrote on social media at the time. “He was a phenomenal father, husband, friend and role model, and the rest of us try to follow in his footsteps. … Tim has given us a lot of strength and stability and we are determined to emulate those qualities.”

The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Camerota and CNN for further comment on her departure.

December 8th, 2:09 p.m Updated with on-air statements from Camerota, Blitzer and Thompson.