Christiane Amanpour is outta here.
She’s leaving CNN after 43 years. She was the network’s public intellectual, the one serious minded person there with an international point of view.
Amanpour clearly isn’t waiting around to see what happens now that CNN has been sold to Skydance and the Ellisons. She’s been battling cancer for some time, so who needs this mishegos? She could get funded overnight for a podcast, newsletter, whatever she wants.
Listen to her carefully worded announcement below. She’s “separating” from CNN — sounds like divorce. It’s our loss, that’s for sure.
An update from me… https://t.co/AKLOEekEO2
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) October 19, 2026
