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Lester Holt Steps Down As ‘NBC Nightly News’ Anchor

Leicester Holt.
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The sun sets Leicester HoltTime in NBC Nightly News. On February 24, NBC He confirmed that Holt is stepped from the show after a decade as an editor and an administrative director. It will stay with the network and move full time Dateline. We still have time for this shift in night shifts, though. The news broadcaster has long plan to continue the consolidation At night “During the beginning of the summer,” according to note Send to the employees they obtained by Semafor’s Max Tani. He wrote: “It was truly the honor of life to work with each of you every day, while preserving the press as our real north and our viewers in the center of everything we do.”

Holt is based on the weekend broadcast Night news For eight years before filling his predecessor Brian WilliamsWhich was suspended in 2015 after She is publicly shameful To decorate a story about the helicopter attack in Iraq. In June of that year, Hoult was officially named an anchor Night news. He also held the position of the main anchor Dateline Since 2011, “a smile comes to my face when I think so Night newsAnd DatelineHolt wrote in his memo. “As a 20 -year -old radio correspondent for the police, he overcame the harsh news about San Francisco, I couldn’t imagine that the course of my profession would be revealed in the way he was. What an amazing journey.”

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