Lester Holt Biography
Lester Holt is an American award winning journalist and is well known for anchoring news in NBC programs such as NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and NBC Dateline. He became the first man of color to anchor a weekday nightly newscast alone.
Lester Holt’s Age
His full name Lester Don Holt Jr. was born on 8th March 1959 in Hamilton air force base, California United States of America. He is 64 years old in 2023. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Lester Holt Education
He studied at Cordova High school in Rancho Cordova and graduated in 1977 and later joined California State University in Sacramento where he majored in Government but he did not graduated. He received an honorary degree in 2015. Additionary, he received a doctorate honorary in Humane letters from Rutgers University in 2020 and from Villanova University in 2023.
Lester Holt Family
He was born to June DeRozalio (mother) and Lester Don Holt Sr. (Father) and was born the last born of four. His grandparents were born in Jamaica. During Vietnam War his father was father stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska for four years. His older brother introduced him to broadcasting since his brother was a disc jockey at a local radio station in Anchorage, Alaska. The names of his siblings are not available.
Lester Holt’s wife
The journalist is married to his lovely wife Carol Hangen. The couple tied their knots in 1982.
Lester Holt’s Children
The personality and his wife Carol are parents to two sons namely Stefan Holt and Cameron Holt.
Lester Holt Salary and Net Worth
Holt’s primary source of income is from his career. He appears in the list of most highly paid journalists. He receives an estimated annual salary of $7million and his estimated net worth is $35 million.
Lester Holt Career
His career begun when he was working as a disc jockey at a country and western station and this was through his college years. He worked at CBS as a reporter, an anchor and an international correspondent for 19 years. He firstly was hired as a reporter at WCBS in New York City. In 1982 he left for KNXT in Los Angeles to work as a reporter and a weekend anchor. Later the next year he came back to WCBS as a reporter and an anchor. He joined WBBM TV in Chicago in 1986 where he anchored evening news for 14 years.
In 2000 Holt joined MSNBC and in 2003 he assumed his full duties at NBC news. He became a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly news and Today and later full time anchor of weekend today after the demise of David Bloom a co-anchor. The talented personality anchored the NBC Nightly news for 8 years and later replaced Brian Williams as permanent anchor of the weekday edition.
He has done a commendable job in NBC including interviewing president Trump in 2017 where fellow journalists said he asked appropriate but tough questions. Together with other NBC POLITICAL reporters Holt moderated a presidential candidate debate in 2016.
Lester Holt’s Awards
His commendable job has earned various awards like Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, NABJ Journalist of the Year Award, Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication.
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