Don Lemon is an American television journalist. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 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. He is the host of
Don Lemon Tonight.