Ex

Valerie Hoff DeCarlo worked at CNN from 1992 to 1999. She later resigned for, and subsequently haunted by, a racist slur she made in 2017 while working on a story about police violence This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Valerie Hoff DeCarlo was haunted by a racial slur she made in 2017 (Image: valeriehoffdecarlo/Instagram)

A former CNN news anchor who resigned after she made a sickening racial slur has died aged 62. Valerie Hoff DeCarlo, who worked at the US network from 1992 to 1999, died of lung cancer.

After leaving CNN she joined NBC-affiliate WXIA in Atlanta and stayed there until 2017, before resigning for the slur.

She was speaking to a black source in a private exchange, while working on a s