Lester Holt, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” announced on Monday that he would step down from the long-running broadcast at the beginning of the summer.
According to a memo shared with network staff on Monday, Holt is in a full-time role in “Dateline,” which has a full-time role in “Dateline.”
NBC News did not immediately name Holt’s successor.
Holt was appointed anchor for “Nightly News” in June 2015 after piloting the weekend edition of the eight-year news broadcast and sharing “Today Today” for 12 years. He has been the main anchor for “Dateline” since September 2011.
“On nightly news and datelines, when I think I’ve now pinned two of the most successful and iconic TV news programs in broadcast history, a smile comes to my face,” Holt said on Monday. Every night” and wrote it in a notebook in “Dateline.” “staff. “A 20-year-old police radio reporter beat the broken news around San Francisco, so you could never have imagined that his career path would unfold. What a great ride. ”
In a decade at the helm of “Nightly News,” Holt has been a critical era, including the political rise of President Donald Trump, the Covid pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. We’ve covered the events. And the war in Gaza.
In recent months, Holt has co-ordinated coverage of the election night network, travelling to Iran for an exclusive interview with President Masuud Pezeschkian, and has now added a “dateline” about the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles wildfires “He conducted the special.
Interviews with Holt’s world leaders regularly made headlines and set news agendas. He spoke one-on-one with Trump, former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama, Ukrainian President Voldymee Zelensky and other important figures.
Holt traveled to areas that were frequently hit by deadly hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and mass shootings.
In a message to staff, Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming at NBC News, said: “In very simple terms, Leicester is the heart of this news organization’s heartbeat.”
He was named “America’s Most Trusted Television News Personality” for the second time in a row, according to a poll by the Hollywood Reporter and Morning Consulting. “Nightly News” is consistently the top television show every week, with an average of around 7 million viewers.
Holt also pins Nightly News: Kids Edition, an Emmy-nominated digital newscast aimed at informing and educating children.
Holt, who joined NBC News in 2000, took the helm of “Nightly News” from veteran broadcaster Brian Williams. Holt was selected as the permanent anchor for the flagship program on June 18, 2015.
Holt arrived at the network over a decade later at WBBM-TV station in Chicago and served as the afternoon and evening news anchor. He began his television journalism career in New York in 1981 as a reporter for WCBS-TV. The following year, Holt moved to Los Angeles and reported on KCBS-TV (known at the time as KNXT) before returning to WCBS in 1984.
He has received a variety of industry honors, including the Emmy Award, and in 2019 he was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award, revered for excellence in journalism.
