Rita Braver worked for the network for 50 years before retiring from CBS Sunday Morning 

Rita Braver is retiring after 50 years at CBS News.

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She is an award-winning national correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning.

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The memo was shared with the staff and acknowledged Braver's essential role in Sunday Morning.

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Braver began her broadcast journalism career at the New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV.

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She was hired as a news desk editor at CBS News' Washington bureau in 1972.

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In 1993, Braver was promoted to chief White House correspondent and later to national correspondent in 1997.

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