WATCH: Local CNN Anchor Leaves 'Starting Point'

Host of CNN's morning show “Starting Point” and Smithtown native Soledad O’Brien hosted the show for the last time Friday.

According to a Politico.com report, O’Brien had been reporting for CNN daily for a decade, something she will no longer do.

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"My tenure, obviously, at the helm of this show ends today and I’m not going to be covering daily news for CNN after today," O’Brien said. "Over the last decade at CNN, I’ve had a really great chance to cover some of the biggest stories, I think it’s fair to say, of our time, like the Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti, and our entire political season last year and Hurricane Katrina, obviously.”

O’Brien said on the show that she'll continue her career in journalism and produce documentaries and specials for CNN with her new production company, StarFish Media Group.

O'Brien wrote "The Next Big Story" back in 2011, a book co-written by Rose Marie Arcea, talking about her career, growing up biracial and more.