Soledad O'Brien Off Daily Duties at CNN

Longtime anchor headed to documentary division

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It's been rumored for a while and now it's official: Soledad O'Brien is out of the mix at CNN. She'll be producing documentaries for the network, but O'Brien will no longer have a daily presence at the rapidly evolving CNN.

O'Brien has been the face of the network's morning lineup since 2001; her current show, Starting Point, has been running since last year—for 10 years before that, her program was called American Morning. Behind Anderson Cooper, she's perhaps the face most associated with the network.

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