Brooke Baldwin bids an emotional farewell on CNN Friday

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Brooke Baldwin chose a crowded news day to say goodbye on air on CNN. After 13 years, she bid farewell to the place where she had dreamed of working since her time as a student at the University of Georgia.

“This job, my show here on CNN, was not originally to be mine,” Baldwin said. “More than a decade ago, there was an anchor who suddenly departed CNN, leaving this gaping hole in the afternoon and the then-bosses quickly turned to me and said, ‘Brooke, we’re going to need you to keep the seat warm just for a week until we actually find the person to take over the show.’ Well, okay, I have kept this seat warm for nearly 11 years.”

“I am filled with emotion and gratitude,” she said on air during the final minutes of her last broadcast Friday afternoon. “A decade ago, I didn’t even know this show would become mine. A decade later, I find myself in a similar situation not totally knowing what’s next. And I’m OK with that because what I do now is that I am a journalist and a storyteller for life.”

She said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month that she has no new job. She just decided after writing a book about women’s empowerment called “Huddle” that it was time to forge out on her own and do long-form storytelling on her own terms.

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