Norah O'Donnell QUITS CBS Evening News for new role after 12 years as network anchor as she pens emotional farewell letter

Norah O'Donnell has discontinue CBS Evening News aft 12 years arsenic an web anchor.

Per THR, O'Donnell, 50, will go CBS News typical analogous astatine nan web - conducting 'interviews and different reports for CBS News programming pinch appearances connected CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes.

O’Donnell penned successful a memo to unit connected Tuesday: 'There’s truthful overmuch activity to beryllium proud of! 

'But I person spent 12 years successful nan anchor chair present astatine CBS News, connected to a regular broadcast and nan rigors of a relentless news cycle. It’s clip to do thing different

'Beyond that, I’m pleased to stock that I person made a semipermanent committedness to CBS News to proceed to do nan aforesaid storytelling and large interviews that person been our hallmark.'

'It's clip to do thing different. This statesmanlike predetermination will beryllium my seventh arsenic a journalist, and for galore of america successful this business we thin to look astatine our careers successful position of these milestone events.

Her replacement has not yet been announced. 

O'Donnell replaced Jeff Glor connected CBS Evening News successful July 2019 - starring nan broadcast from Washington, D.C.

She was antecedently CBS This Morning co-host from 2012 and earlier that, CBS News’ main White House analogous during President Obama's administration.

Wendy McMahon, president and CEO of CBS News and Stations wrote successful a memo to staff: 'In this caller role, Norah will person nan clip and nan support to present moreover much of nan exceptional stories she is known.' 

O'Donnell replaced Jeff Glor connected CBS Evening News successful July 2019 - starring nan broadcast from Washington, D.C.

She was antecedently CBS This Morning co-host from 2012 and earlier that, CBS News’ main White House analogous during President Obama's administration.

In April 2022, pursuing reports that she could beryllium replaced, O'Donnell re-signed pinch CBS News for $3.8 cardinal a year, down from her erstwhile $8 cardinal package, sources told nan New York Post. 

One root told nan outlet that CBS execs gave O'Donnell a 'low ball' connection which they expected her to reject, and were taken by astonishment erstwhile she accepted. 

It follows galore reports that O'Donnell had fought pinch CBS News co-president Neeraj Khemlani, a no-nonsense, budget-cutting exec who had reportedly formed a wide nett searching for her imaginable replacement.

A spokesperson for CBS News referred DailyMail.com to a connection provided to nan Post, which denied that Khemlani had sought to switch O'Donnell. 

'Wrong again. Neeraj led nan effort to clasp and re-sign astir a twelve of our biggest anchors and correspondents complete nan past twelvemonth including Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King – and recruited a fewer caller ones for illustration Nate Burleson and Robert Costa,' nan connection said.

In early April 2022, reports first emerged that O'Donnell had renewed pinch CBS contempt wide rumors that she mightiness beryllium replaced. 

However, location was nary denotation astatine nan clip of nan dollar magnitude connected nan statement that would spot her remain connected nan anchor table done nan 2024 predetermination and beyond.

In March of that year, speculation ran rampant successful nan manufacture that that CBS mightiness axe O'Donnell to her alleged 'toxic behavior' and purported $65,000-a-year wardrobe allowance. 

O'Donnell's publicist Cindi Berger denied nan accusations astatine nan time, telling nan Post: 'It's a clothing allowance, each news anchor has one. That fig is incorrect.'