Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Valerie Hoff DeCarlo, who quit journalism after using N

A disgraced CNN anchor who was ousted from the journalism industry after she used the N-word in a private exchange with a black source died at 62 last week after a battle with lung cancer.

Valerie Hoff DeCarlo served as an anchor on CNN from 1992 to 1999. After her stint at the left-wing mainstay, DeCarlo split between working as an anchor and consumer reporter at NBC-affiliate WXIA in Atlanta from 1999 to 2017, according to her LinkedIn .

While Hoff DeCarlo was chasing a potential story about racial and police violence in 2017, she referred to herself as a “news n—as” in a private message to a man who posted a video she was trying to investigate.

The man, who was black, had previously noted in a public post that many “news n—as” were trying to to get ahold of the video, the Atlanta