Cynthia McFadden To Depart NBC News After 10 Years

Ted Johnson
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Cynthia McFadden, longtime senior legal and investigative correspondent at NBC News, said that he is leaving the network.

She wrote on Instagram this morning, “It is hard to leave a job you love but this is the right time- I have a list of things I have often said I wanted to do ‘someday.’ Well, someday is now, while I am still raring to go— and playing with a relatively full deck. Maybe I’ll even surprise you (and myself!).”

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McFadden reported on Thursday on a calls from the medical community for first responders to carry blood on rescue vehicles, with part two scheduled to air next week. Last week, a one-hour special on NBC News Now featured her investigation of veterans and their families exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune.

McFadden joined the network after 20 years at ABC News as anchor and correspondent, including for Nightline. She won an Emmy for her year-long investigation on the human toll of mica mining in Madagascar.

Other stories for NBC News included reports on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic, one that helped raise nearly $2 million in donations to UNICEF. After she interviewed Amal Clooney calling for the release of the former president of the Maldives, he was released. She and the network’s investigative unit also broke stories on Russian involvement in the 2016 election, among other highlights.

Here complete post below:

“Today, some personal news: after a wonderful ten years at NBC, next week I will report my last story here,” she wrote on Instagram. It was a big decision to leave ABC after 20 years— to give up the Nightline anchor chair and hit the road. But the opportunity at NBC to dig deeply into some of the world’s most complex problems was just too good to resist. I am so happy I took the leap. These have been some of the most gratifying and productive years in a long career. NBC encouraged me to tell complex and nuanced stories — often about injustice and corruption, especially about the troubles children face — from rural Mississippi to the Triangle of death in the Central African Republic— from the Red Cloud reservation to the mica mines of Madagascar and the mothers of Camp Lejeune. From the American Arctic and the Rohingya camps to the Peruvian gold mines and cancer alley. Sometimes the stories led to hearings, federal investigations or policy changes. Sometimes we were able to give a voice to someone who had never had one. It is hard to leave a job you love but this is the right time- I have a list of things I have often said I wanted to do ‘someday.’ Well, someday is now, while I am still raring to go— and playing with a relatively full deck. Maybe I’ll even surprise you (and myself!). To my NBC friends and colleagues, thank you: for your support, guidance and wisdom. You are a special group of talented people and I will be watching with pride as you carry-on.”

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