Lester Holt stepping down as “NBC Nightly News” anchor
Lester Holt, longtime anchor and executive editor of “NBC Night News”, announced on Monday that he will quit broadcasting in early summer broadcasts Network Reports. Holt, 65, has been performing for 10 years.
NBC News didn’t immediately name who will take over the anchor.
Holt also anchored the news magazine show “Dateline” and he will continue to hold the position full-time, the network said.
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Holt joined NBC News in 2000 and was appointed host of “Night News” in June 2015 Brian Williams.
The network said Holt has been the main host of “Dateline” since September 2011. Holt worked together for 12 years before taking over the hosting duties of Night News.
“As a 20-year-old policeman chasing news-breaking news around San Francisco, I can never think my career path will develop in the way it is,” he wrote in the memo. “What an amazing journey.”
exist statementJanelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming at NBC News, praised Holt’s “stable and thoughtful leadership” for a decade. She said he helped the broadcast maintain its “trust and popular news destination for millions of viewers in the United States.”
“He brought the audience to the frontline of every major story and sat down with the world leaders to cleverly ask the answers to the questions about the outcome,” she added. “It’s simple, Leicester is the beating of this news agency. ”
Holt is also the host of Kids Edition, the latest high-profile TV news figure to quit in recent months.
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