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

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

Holt will continue to host “Dateline NBC,” the network’s prime time newsmagazine.

“Quite simply, Lester is the beating heart of this news organization,” NBC News executive vice president of programming Janelle Rodriguez said in an internal memo on Monday. “He’s earned deep respect and reverence from our newsroom, industry colleagues and, most importantly, viewers.”

When Holt was elevated to the job in 2015, he was the first African-American solo

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