Chris Wallace to Leave Fox News for CNN’s Streaming Service
The New York Times
The “Fox News Sunday” host had been with the network for 18 years. He announced his departure on his program. Soon after, CNN said he would have an interview program on its new service.
Chris Wallace, whose stewardship of two presidential debates and penetrating interviews of world leaders made him the leading anchor of Fox News’s reportorial ranks, announced on Sunday that he had decided to leave the Rupert Murdoch-owned network after 18 years.
He will become an anchor for CNN+, the new streaming service from CNN that is expected to debut next year.
His exit from Fox News came as a surprise to the television news industry and will deprive the network of a prominent figure who has been the face of its influential Sunday program, “Fox News Sunday,” and the first anchor at the network to receive an Emmy Award nomination for his work.