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Lester Holt Will Exit NBC’s ‘Nightly,’ But Not News: ‘I Still Had Gas In The Tank’
Lester Holt will leave the anchor desk at 'NBC Nightly News,' but he plans to continue his career with a focus on long-form journalism at 'Dateline'
When Holt, who has anchored “ NBC Nightly News ” for the past decade through coronavirus, the rise of President Trump and a steady increase of horrific shootings across the nation, steps away from the desk on May 30 th, he will do it with the knowledge that he still has a few stories to tell. One promo from one of his employers, KCBS, billed him as “the fastest mic in the west.” Later, while leading hours of breaking-news coverage at MSNBC, Holt would become known as “Iron Pants” because of his ability to stay at the anchor desk without taking a bathroom break. Most notable, perhaps, were a series of end-of-the-broadcast essays delivered at particularly fraught national moments, including the rise of deaths from coronavirus, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, or violent outbursts in New Orleans or Monterey Park, California.
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