CNN anchor Jim Acosta says he's quitting after nearly two decades rather than accept a move from a morning time slot to a less visible midnight at the East Coast.

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Jim Acosta and President Donald Trump are trading words with one another after the former star anchor exited CNN on Tuesday.

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.

Acosta is the first big name to exit CNN in the changes being implemented by CEO Mark Thompson. Thompson last week also told staff that the company intends to lay off a couple hundred employees in a pivot to digital, with a new streaming service in the works.

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,

The longtime anchor signed off with a typically defiant message. On Tuesday morning, Jim Acosta said goodbye to his 10 a.m. CNN audience with a familiar message: “Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. … I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear.”

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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.