Christiane Amanpour leaves CNN for ABC's 'This Week'

Former CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour will leave the network and join ABC to become an anchor for the network's "This Week."

On Thursday, British journalist Christiane Amanpour announced that she will join ABC’s “This Week” in August, which effectively ends her 27-year tenure at CNN where she originally started as a foreign desk assistant and became the chief international correspondent and covered many conflicts throughout the globe, according to the Times Online. In September, Amanpour started her own daily series called “Amanpour.” “I’m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor This Week and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day,” said in a statement on CNN’s website. The former NBC employee further added that she has the “utmost respect” for the news organization and for everyone who works there. Amanpour will fill George Stephanopoulos’ seat when he decides to leave the post and become an anchor for the network’s “Good Morning America” show, notes the New York Daily News. Until Amanpour joins the cable news network in the summer, ABC’s senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper will be the interim anchor of the show. ABC News President David Westin stated that with Amanpour as an anchor with ABC, they will have the opportunity to provide the television audience a completely different alternative to Sunday morning news show, reports the Guardian. “We will continue to provide the best in interviews and analysis about domestic politics and policies. But now we will add to that an international perspective. Christiane will bring the international and the domestic together, in the interviews she does and in the roundtable over which she presides,” said Westin. Amanpour will leave CNN in April.