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Her leaving the Today show is an event of some noteworthiness. Kind of like the retirement of Johnny Carson was back in '92. Part of the newsworthiness is that the job change is a certain redefinition of what we will expect from the evening news anchor of one of the networks and therefore it is newsworthy as a milestone in the shifting of popular culture.
Plus there is the fact that we all tend to assume that the big things in what we are most interested in is big news to everybody (and thus we are all a little shocked to be walking around Disneyland and hear somebody say "Country Bear Jamboree is gone!") and this is big news to the people who decide what news is big so there is some bias.
Personally I don't care because I've watched maybe five hours total of the Today show over the last decade and I haven't watched one of the evening network news programs in longer than that.
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