Sid Bedingfield's decision to leave CNN after nearly 20 years was by mutual agreement with president Jon Klein, the departing senior vice president of CNN Productions tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"At times, Jon and I didn't see eye-to-eye on 'CNN Presents,'" he says. "But he's the boss, and he has every right to decide what it should be."

Bedingfield joined the network in 1986 as a writer. For a while, he oversaw operations for CNN/U.S. He also had a long stint at CNNI. He plans to take a couple months off "before pursuing new work, possibly in documentaries."

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