Chris Wallace, the longtime news anchor of Fox News Sunday and one of the most respected news hosts on television, announced his sudden resignation from the network Sunday morning.

“After 18 years I have decided to leave Fox,” Wallace, 74, said at the end of Sunday’s episode of Fox News Sunday. “I want to try something new to go beyond politics to all the things I’m interested in. I’m ready for a new adventure, and I hope you’ll check it out.”

Wallace is headed to CNN, where he will become an anchor for the network’s new streaming service, CNN+, which is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2022.

“It is not often that a news organization gets the opportunity to bring someone of Chris Wallace’s caliber on board. He is as fine a journalist as there is in our business,” Jeff Zucker, the chairman of WarnerMedia news and sports, said in a statement. Wallace said after decades working on broadcast television and cable news, he’s excited to explore the world of streaming.

“I look forward to the new freedom and flexibility streaming affords in interviewing major figures across the news landscape — and finding new ways to tell stories,” Wallace said.

Wallace, known for his tough interviews and his unbiased approach to news coverage, has hosted Fox News Sunday since its inception in 2003. Prior to joining Fox News, Wallace served as the anchor of NBC Nightly News, the moderator of Meet the Press, and a correspondent on ABC Primetime. He was also the first Fox News anchor to...

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