Lee Newton Stars In Her Final SourceFed Video

The last remaining member of SourceFed‘s original hosting team is leaving the channel. Lee Newton, who has spent the last three years delivering offbeat news stories on the Philip DeFranco-founded channel, has appeared in her final SourceFed video and said her goodbyes to her colleagues and fans.

Unlike Joe Bereta, who left SourceFed at the beginning of the year in order to take a job at Defy Media, Newton’s post-SourceFed plans aren’t known, but she will at least renew her presence on her personal channel, which she has updated infrequenty since joining SourceFed.

In 2012, Newton, along with Bereta and Elliott Morgan, appeared in SourceFed’s first video. The channel has grown to reach 1.5 million subscribers and collect more than 716 million views, and along the way, it has undergone some personnel changes. In addition to Bereta, Morgan departed the channel in 2014, and several other early SourceFed hosts, such as Ross Everett

and Meg Turney, have ventured on to other projects.

Now, it’s Newton’s turn. For her final video, she teamed up with Everett, who returned to the channel “for this and only this.”

SourceFed accompanied the video with its own tribute to Newton. “Dear Lee,” reads a post on the site, “Thank you. No seriously – THANK. YOU. Thank you for always being yourself, no matter what. On camera and off, you were and will always be the brightest ball of ridiculously weird sunshine in this insane place known as SourceFed.”

The offbeat news program will solder on, with new hosts like Bree Essrig taking Newton’s place. We’ll keep an eye on Newton’s channel to learn what she’ll get up to next.