Source: Politics<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 Brian Williams, who remade his career as an MSNBC host after losing his job as NBC \u201cNightly News\u201d anchor for making false claims about a wartime story, is leaving the network after 28 years.<\/p>\n
Williams said in a note to colleagues that \u201cfollowing much reflection,\u201d he had decided to exit when his contract ends in December.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another,\u201d Williams wrote. \u201cThere are many things I want to do, and I’ll pop up again somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams, 62, said he will take a few months off to spend time with his family.<\/p>\n
Williams was NBC News’ top anchor from 2004 until 2015, when he was suspended for falsely claiming that he had been in a helicopter hit by enemy fire during the Iraq War. A subsequent investigation found that he had made other inaccurate statements about his experiences covering events, and he lost the job.<\/p>\n
He was later given the 11 p.m. hour at MSNBC, which he turned into a fast-moving, entertaining newscast summing up the day’s news.<\/p>\n