Christiane Amanpour announces she’s leaving CNN after 43 years

Anchor’s departure not thought to be linked to company’s recent acquisition by David Ellison’s Skydance MediaChristiane Amanpour, one of CNN’s most decorated and venerated journalists, is leaving the network after 43 years, she said in a statement on Monday.Amanpour, who began working for the then-fledging network as an assistant on the international assignment desk in 1983 and is now its chief international anchor,…