Don Lemon

Donald Lemon born March 1 1966 is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as the host of the primetime weekend edition of CNN Newsroom based in New York He currently is the cohost of CNN Tonight He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist Lemon then worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming such as Today and NBC Nightly News after which he joined CNN in 2006 also as a correspondent He later achieved prominence as the presenter of CNN Tonight beginning in 2014 Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards Since 2014 he has also cohosted CNNs New Years Eve special from New Orleans with Brooke Baldwin In May 2021 it was announced that Lemon along with CNN fellow journalist Chris Cuomo would launch a podcast named The Handoff The audio show will center around politics and personal and will be teleprompterfree The following night on May 14 2021 at the end of that edition of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon the host announced So earlier I told you I had an announcement and I do Its been really really great This is the last night that will be CNN Tonight with Don Lemon So I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon but changes are coming and I will fill you in The next morning Lemon apologized for setting fire to the internet and tweeted that his show would be renamed Don Lemon Tonight beginning the following Monday In February 2022 it was announced that he would be hosting a talk show for CNNs thenforthcoming streaming service CNN called The Don Lemon Show However only two episodes managed to be released in the services sole month of operation in April 2022 before shutting down