Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC will be stepping down on Friday, ending her 17-year run as host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Mitchell announced last year she would be leaving the show after the inauguration and will instead work as a correspondent.
“After sixteen years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: connecting, listening, and reporting in the field,” she said in October. “Whoever is elected next week will face the monumental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home.”
NBC executives said in a memo after Mitchell’s October announcement that she “remains one of the country’s foremost and most trusted experts on foreign policy and domestic politics.”
“She has covered every presidential election for NBC News since 1980, including more than a dozen campaigns and seven administrations,” the memo said. “She has reported from North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, Ukraine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Pakistan, Haiti, Sudan, Japan, and many more countries around the world.”
Last week, former “Meet The Press” moderator Chuck Todd announced he was leaving NBC News. “There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality.’ So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment,” he wrote.
