Lester Holt on His Rise to the Top and Replacing Friend Brian Williams: “This Wasn’t About Us” – Hollywood Reporter

Lester Holt on His Rise to the Top and Replacing Friend Brian Williams: "This Wasn’t About Us"

Anchoring is neat, but it’s not oxygen for me,” says Lester Holt, sitting behind his desk at NBC News at Rockefeller Center. It is early March, a week after Super Tuesday, when the 57-year-old, in one of his typical marathons, was on the air nearly continuously from 6:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. And it is nearly 13 months to the day after Brian Williams, his predecessor at Nightly News, ceded the chair in the wake of a scandal that all but blew up the news division.

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