POLITICO – Christiane Amanpour is leaving “This Week” and returning to her roots at CNN and in foreign reporting in a new arrangement that allows her to appear on both ABC News and CNN International, the two networks announced Monday.

George Stephanopoulos will replace her on “This Week,” while continuing his duties on “Good Morning America.” Jake Tapper will also have a “large role” in the Sunday show, as will other correspondents, according to ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider.

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Amanpour will have a weekday show on CNN International. She will also continue at ABC News as a global affairs anchor across the networks’ platforms and as the host of multiple primetime specials.

“Christiane has had a remarkable year for ABC News, and we are looking forward to her getting back out in the field, with her unique brand of storytelling and reporting,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood said. “Her interviews with Mubarak, Qadhafi and others this year were simply world-class. And we are thrilled to be able to work out this arrangement.”

Amanpour, 53, will continue to anchor “This Week” through the end of the year. Stephanopoulos, who hosted the show before Amanpour, will begin on Jan 8.

ABC News shocked much of Washington when it named Amanpour, a longtime CNN foreign correspondent, as the new face of its Sunday talk show beginning last July — a post normally handed to experts on domestic policy and politics. The show took on a more international flavor than its previous incarnation, playing to Amanpour’s strengths, but during her time as anchor the show’s ratings slid from second to third place, behind NBC News’s “Meet the Press” and CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

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