Norah O’Donnell leaves “CBS Evening News” after 5 years in emotional sign: “Honor of a Life”

Norah O’Donnell bid farewell to her speaker chair at CBS Evening News on Thursday night, calling the concert a “honor of life” while the network prepares for a renovated broadcast.

“It’s been five and a half years of incredible,” O’Donnell said.

Oprah Winfrey surprised Oâ € ™ Donnell, 51, with a montage presenting interviews with Pope Francis and former President Kamala Harris and covering in about 1300 broadcasts.

“You have a lot to be proud,” Winfrey said. â € œ Your work as a speaker and editor -in -chief of ‘CBS Evening News’ has not only won awards, but most importantly, has made such a change and informed our nation.â €

O’Donnell, who has served as a broadcasting speaker since 2019, emphasized the importance of journalism while giving its latest signaling.

“This has been the honor of a life to anchor this inherited broadcast,” O’Donnell said.

“CBS Evening News” “For good reason” is the longest broadcast of the evening news in America. And it is made possible by the best journalists in the world. ”

â € œorrespondents, producers, researchers and teams who work tirelessly to bring you the news every night. This will not change because journalism matters. I know this because I have heard this from many of you – our viewers. So from the depths of my heart, I thank you for trusting us and welcoming the hard news with your hearts in your homes.â €

It was accompanied by Evening News employees who left O’Donnell with applause when the broadcast was closed.

“You will miss me too,” Donnell told viewers. â € œp, for the last time, this is’ CBS Evening News’ tonight. ‘ I owe everyone I work with. Seriously. I love you. Good night.â €

In July, O’Donnell announced that it would be released from its role as an anchor and management editor after the 2024 presidential election to focus on an extended network role in the midst of difficult visibility.

The decision came a few months before the parent company Paramount Global was vacationing from the comprehensive work of $ 2,000 to cut $ 500 million from the budget before its planned reunion with Skydance Media.

She will work on long reports and interviews for CBS special shows, “Sunday Morning” and “60 minutes,” CBS reported.

O’Donnell’s $ 8 million salary dropped by more than half to $ 3.8 million when she signed a deal with the network in 2022, the post reported.

Evening News had only 4.6 million viewers in total in the latest quarter and less than 670,000 in the 25-54-year-old leading demography-after the “ABC World News Tonight” and “NBC Nightly News”.

CBS journalist John Dickerson and the old CBS presenter of New York, Maurice Dubois, were named as O’Donnell’s descendants.

The duo will serve as co-monitor and broadcast their first episode on January 27 from NYC, shifting the studio from Washington, DC to Big Apple.

“I want to say thank you to viewers,” Dubois said on Thursday. â € œky is my hometown. And without viewers, we don’t have, so thank you for everything over the years, we will continue in another time.