Andrea Mitchell says she's ending her daytime MSNBC show after 16 years

NEW YORK -- Veteran NBC News newsman Andrea Mitchell said Tuesday that she plans to extremity her weekday MSNBC show aft nan inauguration of a caller president and move backmost to a reporting role.

Mitchell, 77, has been hosting “Andrea Mitchell Reports” successful nan daytime lineup since 2008, longer than anyone other astatine nan network. She's worked for NBC News since 1978, covering each awesome governmental normal since 1980.

She'll proceed to study for NBC News, and nan web said she'll beryllium portion of awesome breaking news and governmental events.

“After 16 years of being successful nan anchor chair each day, I want clip to do much of what I emotion nan astir — much connecting, listening and reporting successful nan field, particularly arsenic whoever is elected president is going to undertake nan monumental task of handling 2 overseas wars and nan governmental divisions present astatine home,” she said connected her show.

Mitchell will clasp her titles arsenic NBC News' main overseas affairs analogous and main Washington correspondent.