Campbell Brown Leaving CNN

Campbell Brown Leaving CNN

Campbell Brown will step down as CNN's 8PM news anchor due to low ratings, the NY Times has confirmed.

"The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else. CNN will have to figure out what that is," said in in a statement.

"Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is simply impossible for me. It is not who I am or who I want to be; nor is it who CNN asked me to be at any point."

Campbell's eponymous news program has reportedly averaged a disastrous 591,000 viewers. She will continue to host until CNN finds a replacement.