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Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of ‘NBC Nightly News’

Lester Holt, the trusted face of “NBC Nightly News” for the past decade, is stepping down from the newscast this summer.

Lester Holt, the trusted face of “NBC Nightly News” for the past decade, is stepping down from the newscast this summer. When Holt was elevated to the job in 2015, he was the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast. ABC’s “World News Tonight,” led by David Muir, who has been in the chair since 2014, averaged 7.6 million viewers in the fourth quarter of last year.

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