Lester holt nbc news biography

Lester Holt Biography

Lester Holt is a renowned American journalist and news anchor.

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Currently, he anchors the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC. He is quite known for being the first African_Maerican to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.

In addition, he is also known for moderating the first Presidential debate of 2016.

For this task, he was praised by The Washington Post columnist for his role in fact-checking false statements.

On June 18, 2015, he was made the permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News after the demotion of Brian Williams. However, this move saw NBC Nightly News drop its ratings to second place.

Holt attended Cordova High School in Rancho, Cordova later graduating in 1977.

He then joined California University, Sacramento, and majored in government.

Lester holt nbc news biography

However, he never graduated.

While in college, he landed his first-time on-air job as a disk jockey. This was at a Country and Western station. He kept this job through his colleg