Just days after longtime journalist Norma Holland left WHAM-TV, a second popular morning news anchor has announced her pending departure from the news station.

Jennifer Johnson, who has been a television reporter in Rochester since 2002, announced via Twitter that her contract at WHAM-TV (Channel 13) ends this week and that she is "choosing to use what life has taught me and go in a new direction."

Her last day at WHAM-TV will be Thursday. Johnson did not share further details about what's next.

A journalist for 19 years (first at a news station in Hastings, Nebraska), Johnson moved to Rochester in 2002 for a reporting job at WHEC-TV (Channel 10). She was there for a several years before moving to WHAM-TV.

She is currently a morning news anchor at WHAM-TV.

Raised outside Boston, Johnson graduated from the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University.

Johnson is married to Vinnie Esposito, a former Monroe County legislator and the current Finger Lakes regional director of Empire State Development.

The couple lives in Irondequoit with two of their three children. Their daughter Grace, was born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in 2011 and died 16 months later after complications with a surgery. The family has received an outpouring of support following her death. Thanks to Grace, they are strong supporters of Golisano Children's Hospital.

VFREILE@Gannett.com