Lester Holt Anchor & Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News and Anchor of Dateline NBC
October 18, 2022
Lester Holt is an award-winning journalist at NBC News. He is the anchor and managing editor of the network’s flagship broadcast “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” which recently won an Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as the anchor of “Dateline NBC.”
Named the “most-trusted television news personality in America” by The Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll, Holt became anchor of “NBC Nightly News” in June 2015 after anchoring the weekend editions of “NBC Nightly News” for eight years and co-anchoring “Weekend TODAY” for 12 years. Holt has served as principal anchor of “Dateline NBC” since September 2011 and joined NBC News in 2000.
