Tom Llamas will succeed Lester Holt as anchor of ‘NBC Nightly Information’ – NBC New York

Tom Llamas will take over as anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly Information” after Lester Holt steps down this summer season, the community introduced Wednesday.

Llamas is a senior nationwide correspondent and anchor of “High Story with Tom Llamas,” a night newscast that streams on NBC Information NOW. He’ll proceed to anchor “High Story” every weeknight, NBC Information government vp of programming Janelle Rodriguez wrote in a message to employees.

“Tom has the successful mixture of journalistic excellence, passionate storytelling and unyielding integrity — all traits which have lengthy been logos of ‘NBC Nightly Information,’” Rodriguez mentioned in a press release. “Moreover, he’s been instrumental in rising NBC Information NOW into the main streaming information community, serving to to introduce NBC Information to a brand new era of viewers.”

Llamas mentioned anchoring “Nightly Information” is a “profound honor and one which carries super accountability.”

“I stay up for working with the world class journalists at ‘Nightly Information’ and ‘High Story’ to convey viewers a very powerful tales each evening,” Llamas mentioned in a press release.

Llamas will turn out to be the primary Latino journalist to host the weeknight version of Nightly Information.” José Díaz-Balart, who hosts a present on MSNBC, anchors Saturday editions of Nightly Information.”

Holt, the anchor and managing editor of “Nightly Information” for a decade, introduced final month that he deliberate to step down this summer season. He’ll stay a fixture on the community with a full-time function at “Dateline,” the place he has been the principal anchor for nearly 15 years.

“Lester Holt is a good man and one of the crucial trusted broadcasters of our time,” Llamas mentioned. “Similar to Lester, I promise to be dedicated to our viewers and devoted to the reality.”

Holt, talking to “Nightly” staffers Wednesday by cellphone, mentioned he instructed Llamas that anchoring the printed was “not solely one of many nice jobs, but it surely’s an amazing employees he is inheriting. I do know you all will give him your 100% assist as you make the transition.”

Llamas began out as an intern at a neighborhood Telemundo station earlier than launching his skilled journalism profession at NBC Information, working as an in a single day manufacturing assistant and then a marketing campaign embed. He rose via the information business as a neighborhood journalist at WTVJ and WNBC.

He later served as ABC’s chief nationwide affairs correspondent and anchored weekend editions of the community’s “World Information Tonight.” 

He rejoined NBC Information in 2021 as a senior nationwide correspondent and shortly after turned the anchor of “High Story.” He’s additionally an everyday fill-in anchor on “Nightly Information” and studies usually for that program, along with the “TODAY” present.

Llamas has led protection of main breaking information and political occasions for NBC Information NOW, reporting on pivotal storylines from across the U.S. and the world, together with the Israel-Hamas conflict; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the assassination try on President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania; the Tokyo and Paris Olympics; and a number of other pure disasters.

He has interviewed world leaders and political figures, together with Trump through the 2016 presidential marketing campaign, first girl Melania Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Llamas begins his new function this summer season.

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