(MSNBC)
Andrea Mitchell has signed off for the final time. The Friday broadcast of Andrea Mitchell Stories ended the sequence, which aired for 17 years on MSNBC.
The anchor introduced she could be ending the sequence in October. The hour-long program premiered in September 2008.
TV Insider shared that Mitchell would stay with NBC. She might be a chief overseas affairs correspondent and Washington correspondent. The alternative for her midday EST hour has not been introduced.
On the finish of her broadcast, she mentioned goodbye to her viewers. As shared by TV Insider, her message and a video of it are beneath.
“Only a few closing ideas concerning the tales that we’ve shared over these 17 years, you and I, and the miles I’ve traveled to deliver them to you. I’ve anchored this program all around the world, as you simply noticed, from Moscow to Beijing, Nairobi to Ramallah, Havana, Islamabad, Kabul, Baghdad, sure, telling America’s story, as effectively, all around the United States, beginning with Iowa and New Hampshire.
This hour has all the time been pushed by what I really like most, deep reporting on politics and overseas coverage,” Mitchell continued. “As I introduced final October, in these difficult occasions, I wish to get again to my roots and study extra about your lives, inform your tales as we face tectonic adjustments in our nation and our world, after additionally doing that for 17 years, internet hosting this day by day present on MSNBC, I’ll be doing that any further full time, the place this superb experience first began 47 years in the past, proper right here at NBC Information as chief Washington and chief overseas coverage correspondent, persevering with to cowl politics and overseas coverage.
Above all, I’m proudest of the younger journalists who appeared first on our program and at the moment are amongst our high correspondents, and particularly the ladies from print and broadcast who at the moment are regulars on all of the networks, however received their first breaks proper right here. And I’m grateful to my fellow correspondents at NBC Information, this unbelievable workforce, who introduced their nice reporting to this program day after day, proper right here in Washington and from all around the world.
And at last, tv information is a workforce sport. I might be without end grateful to Phil Griffin and Yvette Miley who launched this present, and Rashida Jones for her fixed help over a few years, and to my companions within the trenches, Casey Dolan and Michelle Perry, the studio crew proper right here, unbelievable producers who carry out miracles, consider me, seemingly day by day, when information breaks into our hour they usually have to change gears with a complete new present, journalism is a gigantic privilege and a accountability. It’s by no means been extra essential to do it. Effectively, that’s my vow as I proceed on this journey.”
Andrea Mitchell wipes away tears as former and present staffers shock her on set on the finish of her closing present as an MSNBC host pic.twitter.com/HYEsQnyxtB
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What do you suppose? Did you watch Andrea Mitchell Stories? Are you unhappy to see it finish?