Both Gayle King and CBS News brass on Friday addressed the widely-circulated report that she would depart the anchor desk at “CBS Mornings” next spring.

On Thursday, Variety reported that the Emmy Award winner and Oprah Winfrey bestie is expected to leave her position next year. King, who joined the morning show in 2011, “may shift to a different role at the news division,” potentially with “a deal to produce her own programming for the network,” reporters Matt Donnelly and Brian Steinberg wrote.

Paparazzi approached King outside of the CBS Broadcasting Center in Midtown, Manhattan on Friday and probed the broadcast journalist about her future at the Tiffany Network .

“All I can say is this: From what I’m being told inside this building … all I’ve been told by everybody in

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