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Jake Tapper, Senior White House  Correspondent for ABC News since 2008, will leave the network after nine years to join CNN, where he will host an afternoon news program, The New York Times reported today.

Tapper, who hosted a weekend gabfest called Take 5 for CNN in 2001, will begin anchoring a weekday afternoon program for CNN in a yet-to-be-disclosed time slot beginning in January 2013. Additionally, he will be the cable network's chief White House correspondent. His departure from ABC was expected after he was passed over as host of the Sunday morning news program This Week in favor of George Stephanopoulous.