CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger bid the community’s viewers farewell on Thursday, marking an finish to 17 years on the cable information channel and turning into simply the newest high-profile CNN persona to depart amid anticipated finances cuts.

Throughout her ultimate look on CNN panel present Inside Politics, the 72-year-old Borger instructed her colleagues that she’d be “cheering for everybody” and that she believed the community was “in an excellent place.”

Previous to the community feting the veteran political journalist on air, CNN chief Mark Thompson instructed staffers throughout Wednesday’s morning editorial assembly that Borger can be leaving the community, in accordance with media reporter Oliver Darcy.

As Deadline later reported, Borger joined the community in 2007 and had beforehand been CNN’s chief political analyst and a distinguished determine throughout its election protection. A fixture on the panels of CNN’s prime information reveals AC360 and The State of affairs Room, Borger scaled again her function in recent times and dropped “chief” from her title.

Earlier than becoming a member of CNN, Borger had been a nationwide political correspondent for CBS Information and co-anchored CNBC’s Capitol Report.

On the finish of Inside Politics on Thursday, anchor Dana Bash aired a spotlight reel of Borger’s time on the community, calling her an “icon” and a “reporter’s reporter.” After taking part in a clip of Borger interviewing the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in regards to the 2013 authorities shutdown, Bash turned to her departing colleague and aptly quipped – contemplating the present information gripping Washington – that “the extra issues change, the extra they keep the identical.”

Bash went on to notice that Borger “got here up in journalism when ladies within the newsroom had been uncommon” and generally fought each other as an alternative of “preventing for one another,” one thing Bash mentioned “Gloria helped change.” Calling her a “chief within the true sisterhood” of journalism, Bash described Borger as a “mentor” earlier than revealing that she was leaving the community at yr’s finish.

“I see the ladies sitting at this desk. We now have all been true buddies supporting one another and that has been distinctive about CNN,” Borger reacted. “As I look again and I consider all the ladies who’ve come up by way of the ranks, together with the three right here, I‘m so pleased with all the pieces that you just‘ve all achieved. And I really feel like CNN is in a extremely good place.”

CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson praised Borger for her “presence” and “command of the info,” including that she was “going to overlook” her. Borger, in the meantime, mentioned she didn’t consider herself as a “pioneer” however relatively “somebody who has loved my time right here with fantastic colleagues.” Although she was leaving, she insisted she’d “be cheering for everybody” on the community going ahead.

“I imply, I bear in mind when Dana and I had workplaces subsequent to one another; we known as it the estrogen nook,” she jokingly added.

“When good issues occurred to me personally, Gloria was one of many first individuals to ship me a be aware,” CNN correspondent Phill Mattingly remarked. “And when dangerous issues occurred to me personally or professionally, Gloria was one of many first individuals to ship me a be aware. That, I feel, is the true signal of character and a pacesetter inside a corporation. And that issues rather a lot.”

Whereas it had lengthy been anticipated that Thompson would look to streamline CNN and shift it to a digital-first operation, which might essentially imply job cuts and leaner payrolls, that plan has began to come back into focus following the election.

Amid Thompson’s overhaul of the community, which continues to endure declining tv rankings, star anchors comparable to Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have been renewed with out receiving raises. Moderately than take a major pay minimize, anchor Chris Wallace introduced he was leaving CNN on the finish of the yr and would take up podcasting.

Different longtime on-air personalities have additionally departed, comparable to former New Day anchor Alisyn Camerota, who signed off from the community after ten years earlier this month. Whereas Camerota had taken time without work in latest months to look after her ailing husband, who handed away this fall from most cancers, the community additionally didn’t seem to have a lot of a job for her after varied program shifts up to now two years.

In the meantime, Borger wasn’t the one cable information veteran to announce they had been transferring on to different endeavors on Thursday. Neil Cavuto, who has been with Fox Information for 28 years, is leaving the conservative cable large after declining to signal a contract extension. He’ll say his ultimate goodbyes to Fox viewers on Thursday afternoon’s broadcast of his information program Your World.