First on TVNewser: Gerri Willis, personal finance editor for CNN Business News, is departing CNN after seven years at the network, TVNewser has learned. CNN tells us, “Gerri is leaving to explore other opportunities. After 7 years at CNN, she felt it was time for a change. We wish her all the best.”

Willis has appeared on a variety of programs across the CNN, CNNI, and HLN family, including CNN’s “American Morning,” since she began with the network in March of 2003, when she came over from her post at Smart Money magazine.

In January of 2009, she began anchoring her own weekend program on CNN titled, “Your Bottom Line.”

Her last day will be next Friday.