Acosta, who frequently clashed with Trump in his first term, is leaving CNN after being stripped of his morning show and offered a midnight program in its place.

Jim Acosta shared during his morning broadcast on Tuesday, Jan. 28, that he would not be returning to the CNN desk after 18 years with the organization, saying that after 'careful consideration' and 'weighing alternative time slots CNN offered,

The network is moving Wolf Blitzer, a well-known CNN anchor, into his time slot, along with a co-anchor, Pamela Brown. Mr. Acosta’s show is third place in his time slot for total viewers, behind both MSNBC and Fox News, though he has outperformed his MSNBC competitor in the key demographic for advertisers.

Anti-Trump CNN anchor Jim Acosta announced on Tuesday that he will exit the network after being left off the network's new dayside programming schedule.

Jim Acosta, former Knoxville TV news reporter and anchor, has left his longtime job at CNN. Acosta, who worked at Knoxville's NBC affiliate WBIR from 1995 to 1998, was a prominent face of CNN until his sudden departure this week. He was known for holding President Donald Trump to account.

Jim Acosta intends to leave CNN to pursue his own journalism ventures after a programming shake-up left him without his daytime slot

Jim Acosta told viewers this morning that he would be leaving CNN, departing after the network took his morning show off the schedule as part of an anchor shuffle. “I’m grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I’ve spent here doing the news,

CNN chief domestic correspondent Jim Acosta is expected to leave the cable news network after his show was replaced and he was yanked from all scheduled programming, according to a report.

Jim Acosta is out at CNN, but where is he going in the aftermath? Here are the details of his big venture and the future of his rivalry with Trump.

So I take no pleasure in saying that Donald Trump doesn’t meet the press. Instead, Donald Trump eats the press – and I don’t know whether we’ll ever wake up to that fact and do something about it. But I still naively cling to hope.

Frequent Donald Trump antagonist Jim Acosta is leaving CNN after the network tried to move him to a midnight time slot. Here's why that's a bad thing.