Andrea Mitchell is leaving her eponymous MSNBC present Andrea Mitchell Reviews in early 2025 for an expanded function at NBC Information. The 77-year-old TV anchor introduced the exit herself on the finish of this system on Tuesday, October 29, saying she’s going to depart “someday after” the presidential inauguration in January. She’s going to preserve her function as Chief International Affairs Correspondent and Chief Washington Correspondent for the community.
Andrea Mitchell Reviews airs weekdays at midday on MSNBC. Mitchell has been anchoring a hour-long weekday program on the community since 2008, making it the longest-running daytime program on MSNBC. The present isn’t canceled, so a alternative for Mitchell will presumably be introduced at a later time and a title change for that hour of programming would include it.
Mitchell informed viewers on October 29 that “after sixteen years of being within the anchor chair on daily basis, I need time to do extra of what I really like essentially the most: extra connecting, listening, and reporting within the discipline, particularly as whoever is elected subsequent week goes to undertake the monumental process of dealing with two international wars and the political divisions right here at residence.”
“Someday after the inaugural subsequent January, I’ve requested NBC and MSNBC for the chance to proceed protecting these tales however from a unique vantage level. Nonetheless with NBC Information and at MSNBC, nonetheless as Chief Washington and International Affairs Correspondent, simply not on a schedule of a each day present,” Mitchell informed viewers on Tuesday. “From primaries, debates, elections, and inaugurals right here at residence to breaking information across the globe, my aim will proceed because it has all the time been: to carry you, our viewers, the foremost information makers shaping our nation and the world proper right here on MSNBC.”
Andrea Mitchell has determined to shift from her each day anchoring duties on MSNBC to a broader function at NBC Information. The legendary and trailblazing reporter stays Chief International Affairs Correspondent and Chief Washington Correspondent.
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She continued: “What I’ve all the time liked most as I’ve traveled around the globe and right here throughout the U.S., is assembly folks, assembly our viewers, assembly you, particularly listening to about your lives and studying how we are able to do a greater job of informing you about our political leaders and our allies and adversaries around the globe. So come someday subsequent yr, you’ll see me in your residing rooms, nonetheless see me in your cellular units and different platforms, however maybe additionally in your hometowns and cities nonetheless asking the inquiries to get the solutions that you simply deserve.”
Mitchell added that Andrea Mitchell Reviews will proceed enterprise as ordinary by means of subsequent week’s presidential election and after and that she intends to stick with the networks for “a few years to come back.”
“Via the following week, in fact, we’re all centered on protecting the final stretch of this election, then a presidential transition. In the end, a brand new administration,” she mentioned. “However I look ahead to sharing extra with you after the inaugural about all of our plans, thrilling new plans, and bringing you my reporting in new methods proper right here throughout all of NBC Information and MSNBC for a few years to come back.”
Mitchell is one in all a number of main information anchors to announce a departure from their information packages this yr. Norah O’Donnell is out at CBS Information, which brought about an uproar amongst her colleagues and viewers, and Hoda Kotb determined to depart Immediately to spend extra time together with her household, however she, too, will preserve a presence at NBC following her final episode.
