Lester Holt Biography
Lester Holt was born on March 8, 1959, in New York City, and is an American journalist and news anchor for NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, Holt was designated permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News after Brian Williams was demoted. Holt followed in the footsteps of Max Robinson, an ABC News evening co-anchor, and became the first black man to headline a weekday network nightly newscast on his own.
According to a 2018 study, Holt is the most trusted television news anchor in America. Holt was also recognized for moderating the first presidential debate of 2016, and his participation in fact-checking erroneous comments was praised by The Washington Post columnists. While NBC Nightly News was the top-rated evening news program for more than 30 years under Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, ratings fell to second place once Holt took over as host.
Lester Holt Age
Lester Holt was born on March 8, 1959. He is 64 years old.
Lester Holt Height
Lester Holt stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches tall.
Lester Holt Education
He graduated from Rancho Cordova High School in 1977 and majored in government at California State University, Sacramento, where he received an honorary degree in 2015. In addition, he got honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from Rutgers University in 2020 and Villanova University in 2023. “My first on-air job was actually as a disc jockey at a Country and Western station,” Holt told American Profile news magazine in 2012. I could only get a full-time job if I was willing to report the news.” Holt worked at the radio station during his collegiate years.
Lester Holt Family
Holt is the youngest child of four. His mother’s name is June (DeRozario) and His father’s name is Lester Don Holt Sr. Holts’s two children’s names are Justin Holt and Stefan Holt. Stefan Holt, his son, anchors the morning news in Chicago, where Lester used to work as an anchor. He has two grandchildren whose names are
Lester Holt Wife
Holt is married to Carol Hagen with whom they have been blessed with two children.
Lester Holt Children
Holt has two children whose names are Justin Holt and Stefan Holt.
Lester Holt Salary
Lester Holt’s salary is $7 Million.
Lester Holt’s Net worth
Lester Holt’s net worth is $82 million US dollars. NBC pays Lester Holt $7 million per year. Lester Holt is a journalist and NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and Dateline NBC anchor. Holt is the fourth wealthiest news anchor in America, trailing only Tucker Carlson, Anderson Cooper, and Sean Hannity.
Lester Holt Career
He was employed as a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City in 1981. In 1982, he joined KNXT in Los Angeles as a reporter and weekend anchor, and the following year, he returned to WCBS-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor.
Holt moved to WBBM-TV in Chicago in 1986, where he anchored the evening news for 14 years. Holt not only worked at the anchor desk, but he also traveled widely throughout the world, reporting from places such as Iraq, Northern Ireland, Somalia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
Holt joined MSNBC in the year 2000. He began working full-time for NBC News in 2003, where he became a replacement anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today. Holt became a full-time co-anchor of Weekend Today after the death of the previous co-anchor, David Bloom. Until late 2005, he also hosted a two-hour daily newscast on MSNBC.
Holt was designated weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News on May 9, 2007, and anchored the show for eight years until replacing Brian Williams as permanent anchor of the weekday edition. Holt is also the current host of NBC’s Dateline.
In 2016, he moderated a presidential debate, and in 2017, he interviewed President Donald Trump, whom fellow media described as asking difficult but appropriate questions. In addition to his primary duties at NBC News, he hosted a special for The History Channel about 9/11 conspiracy theories, worked as a sports desk reporter for NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is the host of Dateline on ID, a version of Dateline NBC that airs on the Investigation Discovery network.
On the Sci-Fi Channel in 2008, he narrated a documentary about authentic crystal skulls. Holt filled in as weekday anchor while Brian Williams went on medical leave in 2013 for knee replacement surgery. Williams was suspended in 2015 for allegedly embellishing a story about the Iraq War, and Holt took over as NBC Nightly News anchor permanently.
Holt moderated the Democratic presidential debate in January 2016, along with a panel of NBC political reporters, as well as the first presidential debate on September 26, 2016. Prior to the debate, presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that this was “a very unfair system” because “Lester is a Democrat” (Holt was a registered Republican at the time). In 2018, he changed his party allegiance to independence). Following that, Donald Trump stated that Holt did “a good job.” Journalists also praised Holt’s performance, noting that he confronted Trump when Trump stated that he first opposed the war in Iraq, which was later revealed to be incorrect.
When Holt interviewed President Trump in May 2017, they discussed Trump’s termination of FBI Director James Comey.Holt’s interview with Trump received widespread media attention.
