Lester Holt To Enter NAB Hall Of Fame
• Award-winning journalist Lester Holt, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Broadcasting Hall of Fame for his contributions to broadcast television during the 2021 NAB Show, which will be held October 9-13 in Las Vegas. Holt will accept the honor at the NAB Show Welcome event on Monday, October 11 at 9am PT.
“Lester Holt’s integrity, gravitas and dedication make him one of the preeminent journalists in America today,” said NAB President & CEO Gordon Smith. “Millions of Americans turn to him every day to find out what is happening in their communities and deepen their understanding of the world. We are delighted to recognize his contributions to broadcast journalism by inducting him into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame.”
Holt began his television journalism career at WCBS-TV/New York, KCBS-TV (then KNXT)/Los Angeles and WBBM-TV/Chicago. Holt joined NBC News in 2000 and served as an anchor of Newsfront and Lester Holt Live on MSNBC, before becoming co-anchor of Weekend TODAY in 2003 and anchor of the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News in 2007. Holt has also served as principal anchor of Dateline NBC since September 2011 and anchors Nightly News Kids Edition, a digital newscast aimed to inform and inspire children, which he launched at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Named as the “Most-trusted television news personality in America” by a recent Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll, Holt was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism in March 2021. In 2019, he received the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and was honored with Quinnipiac University’s Fred Friendly First Amendment Award in 2017. He has been recognized with multiple Emmy Awards and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2000 for his work on CBS News’ broadcast 48 Hours: No Place Like Home. Holt was also named one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People” by TIME and was named “Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2016.
Registration for the 2021 NAB Show and the co-located Radio Show and Sales and Management Television Exchange (SMTE) is available online.
