Andrea Mitchell’s Final Day As MSNBC Host Set For Friday

Andrea Mitchell will anchor her final MSNBC show on Friday, having announced last year that she would be stepping down from her daily program after the inauguration.

Mitchell will continue with NBC News, where she has been chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.

In October, she announced her departure, telling viewers that “after sixteen years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: more connecting, listening and reporting in the field, especially as whoever is elected next week is going to undertake the monumental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home.”

Her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, is the longest running in the network’s lineup, having launched in 2008.

No successor has been announced. But MSNBC will be spun off from Comcast later this year, along with other cable networks. That means that the network will no longer be under the same corporate umbrella as NBC News.

Mitchell has covered every presidential campaign for NBC News since 1980, and every national political convention since 1972, as well as seven presidential administrations. She joined the network in 1978.