(CNN) - Sarah Palin and Fox News have parted ways.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate had continued to speak out on politics as a paid contributor to the channel but turned down a recent offer to renew her contract with the network, according to a source close to Palin. Fox News confirmed that Palin will no longer be with them as a political analyst.
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The decision apparently ends, at least for now, a relationship which has hit rough patches in the last year. Reports said Palin angered network president Roger Ailes by announcing on a different news outlet she would not run for the White House in 2012.
In August of last year, she posted on Facebook, "I'm sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight," raising again questions about her future with the network.
A year earlier, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said he had made a "joke" when he said "The only problem with talking about Sarah Palin is that she works here ... And if I say something bad and I see her in the hallway, I feel really awkward and wrong, so I just kind of say, 'good job'."
Her contract expired at the end of 2012.
Fox News Executuve Vice President of Programming Bill Shine said in a statement, "We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors."
Ahead of the 2012 election, Palin toured early primary states in a bus plastered with an image of the U.S. Constitution, wooing local politicos and appearing at politically significant events, including the Des Moines, Iowa state fair.
Her political organization, Sarah PAC, contributed to various Senate candidates this past cycle.
Palin has not been exclusive to Fox television properties. Palin and her family also starred in a one-season reality show - "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC - and Palin appeared as a featured "guest host" on NBC's "Today Show." She spoke to CNN moments after casting her ballot in the Alaska Republican primary last March.
Her family has found their way onto other media properties: her daughter competed on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and taped a reality-style show, Lifetime's "Life's a Tripp."
The contract news was first reported by the site Real Clear Politics.
– CNN's Steve Brusk contributed to this report
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Palin and FoxNews: Two examples of freedom of speech gone haywire.
i love Palin but will be happy not to read CNN's "hit pieces" –the sole purpose of CNN posts on Sarah is to slander and besmirch an energetic and hard-working white female–it reeks of liberal "war on white women".... and matches their "war on conservative black men"...
It is pretty shameful that this shallow mental lightweight became a national figure and a multi-millionaire many times over.
Good Riddance !!!
Run, Sarah, Run! Go far, far away. Maybe you could be mayor of some moon colony. Take all your family of celebrity want-to-Beeze with you. Even can start another political party up there, your crazy brother would be your running partner.
oh well
Only simpletons find anything to appreciate in this phony woman who acts and speaks like a 14-year old child.
Neither Fox nor Palin had anything of merit to say. Each is shrill, divisive, and false. Now, if we could rid the world of Fox "News"!
Glad to see her go away from the limelight, and hopefully she will just disappear into Alaska for good. She gives the hard working woman a bad name and brings shame on any woman hopeful running for office. ByeBye!
now that she has made millions she gets to go home. She has been nothing but a showboat
since she entered the stage with McCain. . . .we were a McCain fan before he partnered with her.
When he chose her we chose Obama. She and all these extreme radicals need to go away so that
there can be comprimise again.