chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour will leave the network next year, ending a 43-year career there, according to an internal memo reviewed on Monday. The departure is a notable change for the US cable news channel, which has recently come under new ownership.
is now owned by Skydance, a company formerly known as Paramount Skydance. Its chief executive, David Ellison, has faced criticism over his management of CBS News.
Amanpour’s final months on air
Amanpour will end her daily programmes on and PBS at the close of this year. She will keep hosting a weekly show through May and will spend June working on a handover.
Her first major assignment was covering the first Gulf War. Over a career of more than three decades, she went on to report from conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran.
Skydance deal places and CBS News under one roof
The announcement follows Skydance’s completion earlier this month of a $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. That deal brought and CBS News under the same corporate umbrella.
chief Mark Thompson and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss will keep their roles. Both will report to David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz.
The deal has drawn scrutiny on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have criticized Ellison for allegedly tailoring CBS News coverage to favor President Donald Trump.
A career built on war reporting and interviews
Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist often counted among the most recognizable international correspondents of the past 30 years. She first gained prominence at by covering the first Gulf War from Baghdad in 1990.
She later reported from Iraq as well as the other conflict zones in her career. She became ‘s Chief International Anchor and hosted Amanpour, the network’s flagship global affairs interview programme, while also anchoring a weekly edition on PBS. That made her a rare presence on both cable and public television in the US.
Her work has centred on war, diplomacy and human rights. She has interviewed presidents, prime ministers and activists across five continents, and has won several News and Documentary Emmys as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.
