NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor, Lester Holt, has stepped down from the long-running program after 10 years. Newsweek reached out to Holt's representative via email for comment. Holt was named anchor of NBC Nightly News in June 2015.

Tom Llamas officially takes over for Lester Holt as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. Llamas is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans (2001) and his wife Jennifer is a born and raised New Orleanian who also graduated from Loyola as well as St.