Quotes
After 10 years, 17 if you include my years on the weekends, the time has come for me to step away from my role as anchor of Nightly News,
Holt said in a note published by NBC News on Monday
As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have imagined my career path would unfold in the way it has,
he told staffers in his memo
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
I’m excited to report I will be continuing as anchor of Dateline NBC, but for the first time in a fulltime capacity whereby I will be expanding my footprint on the broadcast and crafting Dateline hours on subjects I care deeply about.”
In a memo to staffers, Holt saidA smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,
Holt wrote in a note Monday to “Nightly” and “Dateline” staffers
He has led the network during some of the country’s most fraught and challenging times in the past decade,
Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming for NBC News, wrote in a message to staff