NBC’s Lester Holt honored with Cronkite award

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“NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt accepted the 2019 ASU Cronkite Award Monday, Nov. 4, 2019.

• “The seeds of media distrust that have been planted in our pathways to the truth, require us to be bold but also transparent,” he said in his acceptance speech.
• “Journalism naturally gloms onto conflict. But increasingly our work has been used as an instrument of conflict,” he said. “We deal in facts, but know our reporting must cut through a thick partisanship that too often clings to what it wants to be true while showing an aversion to what might actually be true.”

Congratulations @LesterholtNBC on receiving the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

His colleagues, family and a surprise musician toast him in the video, created by @Cronkite_ASU, below. pic.twitter.com/hYSsh2PSc4

— NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) November 4, 2019