Lester Holt
Lester Holt was born in San Francisco, California, United States on March 8th, 1959 and is the Journalist. At the age of 65, Lester Holt biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC.
Following Brian Williams' demotion, Holt became the first African-American to solo anchor on a weekday network nightly newscast, and he was praised for his role in fact-checking false claims made by both candidates.
During the debate, President Donald Trump expressed his approval of Holt's moderation, noting that he "thought it was very fair."
Early life and education
Holt was born on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California, the youngest child of June's four children (DeRozario) and Lester Don Holt Sr. Canute DeRozario, his maternal grandfather, was an Anglo-Indian, and one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, as well as a a White Jamaican mother from England. May's maternal grandmother was born in Jamaica but his mother was born in Harlem, New York. His father, an African American from Michigan, had roots in Tennessee.
He graduated from Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, 1977, and spent his time in government at California State University, Sacramento, but he never graduated. Holt told American Profile news magazine in 2012, "My first on-air job was actually as a disc jockey at a Country and Western station." If I was able to cover the news, I would have been able to land a full-time job. Holt's grandfather worked with the radio station throughout his college years.
Personal life
Holt and his partner, Carol Hagen, live in Manhattan; the couple have two boys, Stefan and Cameron. Stefan Holt graduated from Pepperdine University in 2009 and was the morning news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in Chicago. When joining WNBC, Stefan took over as anchor of the station's 11 p.m. news broadcast, replacing veteran Chuck Scarborough as his father's Nightly News. Stefan is the current evening anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ in Chicago.
Lester Holt performs bass guitar and upright bass.
In New York, Holt attends the Manhattan Church of Christ.
Career
Holt spent 19 years with CBS as a reporter, anchor, and international correspondent.
He began as a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City in 1981. In 1982, he became a journalist and weekend anchor on KNXT in Los Angeles, and the next year, he returned to WCBS-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor. Holt left WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1986, where he spent 14 years anchoring the evening news. Holt not only served at the anchor desk, but also reported extensively from troubled locations around the world, including Iraq, Northern Ireland, Somalia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
In 2000, Holt joined MSNBC. He began working full-time at NBC News in 2003, where he became a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today. Following the death of former co-anchor David Bloom, Holt became a full-time co-anchor of Weekend Today. He also anchored a two-hour daily newscast on MSNBC until late 2005. Holt was the host of NBC Nightly News' weekend edition for eight years before replacing Brian Williams as the weekday's permanent anchor. In addition, Holt is the current host of NBC's Dateline. He moderated a presidential debate in 2016 and interviewed President Donald Trump in 2017, where fellow journalists reported that he asked difficult but pertinent questions.
In addition to his primary duties at NBC News, he hosted a special for The History Channel on the 9/11 conspiracy theories and was the host of Dateline on ID, the latest iteration of Dateline NBC on the Investigation Discovery network. On the Sci-Fi Channel, he narrated a film about real crystal skulls in 2008.
Holt stepped in as the weekday anchor when Brian Williams took medical leave in 2013 for knee replacement surgery. Williams was suspended in 2015 for reportedly exaggerating a tale about the Iraq war, and Holt permanently replaced him as the NBC Nightly News anchor.
Holt moderated the Democratic presidential debate in January 2016, alongside a panel of NBC political analysts, as well as the first presidential debate on September 26, 2016. "Lester is a Democrat," presidential candidate Donald Trump said, "it is a very unfair system." Holt was a registered Republican at the time. However, in 2018, he switched his party to independent. Holt did "a good job" after the debate, according to Donald Trump. Holt did exceptionally, according to journalists; for example, he criticized Trump when he said he opposed the war in Iraq, which was later shown to be false. "Kudos to Holt" for making it clear that the stop and frisk were unconstitutional in New York, according to Trump, who said it wasn't.
When Holt interviewed President Trump in May 2017, they talked about FBI director James Comey's dismissal of James Comey. Holt's interview with Trump resulted in a slew of media coverage.
In the 1993 film The Fugitive, Holt made cameo appearances; the 1998 sequel to the United States was released in the United States. Marshals; and Primal Fear (1996); as well as television programs; the series "Red, White, or Blue") of Warehouse 13 includes playing himself in episodes of "British Time & Order: Special Victims Unit," as well as television programs; "Event" of the series Due South; "Mate" of Early Edition and "A New Hope" of Warehouse 13. On the episode "Cleveland" of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, he appeared on the show "Cleveland." In the episode "Sandwich Day," Jack Donaghy would be a new cabinet member in the Bush administration, he did also do a voice-over. Holt showed the USA Network's 2006, 2007, and 2008 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and was featured in Making Music Magazine. He also produced the 2008 Sci-Fi Channel documentary Mystery of the Crystal Skulls. Holt gave the 254th graduating class of Rutgers University a virtual commencement address on May 31, 2020, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awards and honors
- 1990: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his work on CBS's 48 Hours: No Place Like Home .
- 2012: Honorary Doctorate from Pepperdine University
- 2015: Honorary Doctorate from California State University, Sacramento
- 2015: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame on October 28, 2015
- 2016: Alan B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year from Montclair State University
- 2016: NABJ Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists
- 2019: Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
- 2020: Honorary Doctorate from Rutgers University