Don Lemon

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Don Lemon
CNN Newsroom

Don Lemon is an American journalist currently co-anchoring the weekday afternoon version of CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips each weekday. CNN Newsroom is based at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Lemon joined CNN in September of 2006.

Prior to joining the CNN team, Lemon served as a co-anchor for NBC5 News' 5p.m. newscast in Chicago. He joined the station in August of 2003 as an anchor and reporter after working in New York as a correspondent for NBC News, The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. In addition to his reporting in New York, Lemon was an anchor on Weekend Today and on MSNBC.

In addition to NBC5 and NBC News, Don worked as a weekend anchor and a general assignment reporter for WCAU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia. Before that, a general assignment and investigative reporter for KTVI-TV in St. Louis, and as a reporter for Birmingham's WBRC-TV. While still in college, he began his career at WNYW in New York City as a news assistant.

[edit] College

Don earned a broadcast journalism degree from Brooklyn College. He also attended Louisiana State University.

[edit] Awards

Don Lemon won an Emmy regarding a special report on real estate in Chicago. He also received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the Africa AIDS epidemic.