NBC News announced the five moderators for the first Democratic presidential primary debate, set for a two-night run June 26-27: Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart. The two-night event, featuring 10 candidates each night, will take place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the…

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt’s reporting on President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey comes full circle in a sit-down with Comey, airing on Wednesday night’s newscast. "You go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you talk about a lot of things, the Clinton e-mail server, but you…

Jenn Suozzo, previously senior broadcast producer at NBC’s Nightly News With Lester Holt, has been elevated to executive producer on the network’s nightly newscast. The move comes after the July departure of EP Sam Singal; Suozzo, the former EP of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, had been Singal’s No. 2, and had taken…

President Donald Trump set aside his complaints about tech companies and foreign leaders, at least for the moment, to return to his comfort zone of blasting the TV news business. In three morning tweets (which followed a re-tweet of a Breitbart News post explaining Kanye West’s loyalty to Trump), the president said…

Based on a true story, Spike Lee’s forthcoming BlacKkKlansman follows John David Washington’s Ron Stallworth, the first Black Colorado Springs officer who successfully went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, ultimately becoming the leader of its local chapter and gaining the trust of Grand Wizard David Duke…

Sam Singal has stepped down as EP of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Singal's No.2, Nightly News’ senior broadcast producer Jennifer Suozzo, is taking over on interim basis. Suozzo formerly worked at MSNBC, including EP of Andrea Mitchell Reports. Singal was Holt's ep on Weekend Nightly News from 2011 to 2015, when…

ABC News' World News Tonight With David Muir ranked as the No. 1 evening newscast in total viewers during an Olympics week for the first time in more than 25 years. Last time that happened was the week of August 3, 1992 – Week 2 of the 1992 Summer Olympics. During the week of February 12, ABC’s evening newscast…

President Donald Trump is under investigation for possible obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reports explosively Wednesday evening. This is a major change, as former FBI director James Comey confirmed in recent testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, that he had, as Trump claimed, three times…

NBC News changed the name of every broadcast of Lester Holt's newscast last week, to NBC Nitely News. Not on the screen of course, because that would be poor spelling. But in Nielsen's books, so none of NBC News' evening newscasts would be included in Nightly News' season average. In one of those incredible…

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt has won its eighth straight sweep in the news demographic, viewers 25-54. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir took the May sweep in total viewers, after February and November sweep wins in same metric, marking ABC News’ first such streak since Peter Jennings anchored 21 years…

UPDATED with Nightly News interview broadcast: Ousted FBI director James Comey was a “showboat” and “grandstander” who needed to go, President Donald Trump said in an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt. Trump acknowledged he’d asked Comey whether he was under investigation for alleged ties to Russia’s…

Faye Dunaway is speaking out publicly for the first time about the unforgettable Oscar Best Picture snafu when, alongside Warren Beatty, she mistakenly announced La La Land as the winner instead of Moonlight. The actress sat down with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News where she opened up about the mixup and how she…