Don Lemon
Journalist and political commentator
Don Lemon is an American journalist and political commentator who spent many years as a CNN host. He is the author of This Is the Fire.
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American Born 1966 in Baton Rouge, United States
About Don Lemon
Don Lemon was born on March 1, 1966, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He started out in local television, anchoring weekend news in Alabama and Pennsylvania, and later reported for NBC on programs including Today and NBC Nightly News. He joined CNN in 2006 as a correspondent, presented Don Lemon Tonight from 2014 to 2022, and left the network in 2023. He then launched The Don Lemon Show, an independent program with its own YouTube channel. In 2002 he received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on how the Washington, D.C. snipers were caught, and he has also won three regional Emmy Awards. He also wrote the 2011 memoir Transparent and has served as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College.