Don Lemon
| President Lemon | ||
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| 1 March 1966 Louisiana, USA | ||
| Brooklyn College Louisiana State University | ||
| Journalist | ||
Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966 in Louisiana) is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. CNN Newsroom is based at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.
Prior to joining the CNN team, Lemon served as a co-anchor for NBC5 News' 5p.m. newscast in Chicago. He joined the station in August 2003 as an anchor and reporter after working in New York as a correspondent for NBC News, The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. In addition to his reporting in New York, Lemon was an anchor on Weekend Today and on MSNBC.
In addition to NBC5 and NBC News, Don worked as a weekend anchor and a general assignment reporter for WCAU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia. Before that, a general assignment and investigative reporter for KTVI-TV in St. Louis, and as a reporter for Birmingham's WBRC-TV. While still in college, he began his career at WNYW in New York City as a news assistant.
Lemon earned a broadcast journalism degree from Brooklyn College. He also attended Louisiana State University.
Honors and awards
Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago. He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the D.C. area sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Like other CNN anchors, Lemon incorporates viewer comments from Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace into his newscast.
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