Tom Llamas will take over as anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly Information” after Lester Holt steps down this summer time, the community introduced Wednesday.
Llamas is a senior nationwide correspondent and anchor of “Prime Story with Tom Llamas,” a night newscast that streams on NBC Information NOW. He’ll proceed to anchor “Prime Story” every weeknight, NBC Information government vice chairman of programming Janelle Rodriguez wrote in a message to employees.
“Tom has the profitable mixture of journalistic excellence, passionate storytelling and unyielding integrity — all traits which have lengthy been emblems 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 large duty.”
“I stay up for working with the world class journalists at ‘Nightly Information’ and ‘Prime Story’ to deliver viewers crucial tales each night time,” Llamas mentioned in a press release.
Holt, the anchor and managing editor of “Nightly Information” for a decade, introduced final month that he deliberate to step down this summer time. He’ll stay a fixture on the community with a full-time position at “Dateline,” the place he has been the principal anchor for nearly 15 years.
“Lester Holt is a superb man and one of the vital trusted broadcasters of our time,” Llamas mentioned. “Similar to Lester, I promise to be dedicated to our viewers and devoted to the reality.”
Llamas began his 25-year journalism profession at NBC Information, working as an in a single day manufacturing assistant. Previous to his present position on the community, he 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 anchor of “Prime Story.” He’s additionally a daily fill-in anchor on “Nightly Information” and reviews typically 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 battle; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the assassination try on President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania; the Tokyo and Paris Olympics; and several other pure disasters.
He has interviewed world leaders and political figures, together with Trump in the course of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign, first girl Melania Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Llamas begins his new position this summer time.
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