Lester Holt
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Holt in Afghanistan, 2012
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| Born |
Lester Don Holt, Jr. March 8, 1959 Marin County, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California State University, Sacramento |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Employer |
CBS (1981–2000) MSNBC (2000–2003) NBC News (2003–present) |
| Salary | $4.5 million (2015) |
| Television |
NBC News reporter (2000–present) Weekend Today co-anchor (2003–2015) NBC Nightly News weekend anchor (2007–2015) Dateline NBC anchor (2011–present) NBC Nightly News weeknight anchor (2015–present) |
| Term | NBC Nightly News Anchor |
| Predecessor | Brian Williams |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Carol Hagen (m. 1982) |
| Children | 2 |
Lester Don Holt, Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist who anchors the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News. He is also the anchor for Dateline NBC. On February 9, 2015, he became the interim weeknight NBC Nightly News anchor, filling in for suspended anchor and managing editor Brian Williams. On June 18, 2015, he was made the permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News after NBC decided to keep Brian Williams as MSNBC breaking news anchor and reporter and fill-in NBC News breaking news anchor and reporter.
Holt was born in Marin County, California, the son of June (DeRozario) and Lester Don Holt, Sr. His maternal grandparents were Jamaican. His maternal grandfather was of half English and half Indian descent.
He graduated from Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, California, in 1977 and attended California State University, Sacramento, and majored in government, though he never graduated. In 2012, Holt told American Profile news magazine: "My first on-air job was actually as a disc jockey at a Country and Western station. The only time I could land a full-time gig was if I was willing to report the news." Holt would keep the job with the radio station through his college years.
Holt spent 19 years with CBS beginning in 1981, when he was hired as a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. In 1982, he became a reporter and weekend anchor on KNXT in Los Angeles, and the next year he returned to WCBS-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor. In 1986, Holt moved to WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he spent 14 years anchoring the evening news. Holt not only worked at the anchor desk, but also reported extensively from troubled spots around the world including Iraq, Northern Ireland, Somalia, El Salvador and Haiti.
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