CBS Sunday Morning's Rita Braver To Retire In March

Veteran TV news journalist Rita Braver, who has served as a national correspondent on CBS Sunday Morning since 1998, will be retiring at the end of March.

Rand Morrison, executive producer for the weekly news program, announced the news Wednesday in a memo sent to staffers.

"In her decades at Sunday Morning, she's done it all: breaking news... soft features... political issue pieces... stories on art and theater... personality profiles...," Morrison wrote (per our sister site Variety). "If we had a story, Rita always had the interest... and always made the time."

Prior to joining CBS Sunday Morning, Braver spent four years (1993-97) as CBS News' chief White House correspondent, covering a broad range of foreign and domestic issues. She traveled the world on the White House beat, followed President Bill Clinton through his re-election campaign, and served as a floor reporter at the Democratic Convention.

Braver also spent a decade as CBS News' chief law correspondent (1983-93), reporting for CBS Evening News, CBS Morning News, 48 Hours, Street Stories and Public Eye. She covered the Iran-Contra case during the Reagan administration and the drug trial of Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, and broke both the story of the Walker Family Spy Ring and the case of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

Braver has won nine national Emmy Awards, including one for investigative reporting and two for covering the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.