WASHINGTON — Veteran journalist John Dickerson, who is currently a co-anchor of "CBS Evening News," announced Monday he would be leaving the network after 16 years.

"Local news: At the end of this year, I will leave CBS, sixteen years after I sat in as Face the Nation anchor for the first time," Dickerson said in a post on social media . "I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me— the work, the audience’s attention and the honor of being a part of the network’s history— and I am grateful for my dear colleagues who’ve made me a better journalist and a better human. I will miss you."

He did not provide a reason for his looming departure.

Dickerson is a former host of “Face the Nation” and “CBS This Morning” for the network. The former Time magazine White House correspondent, a

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