Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966 in Louisiana) is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. CNN Newsroom is based at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Lemon joined CNN in September 2006. In September 2009, it was reported that Lemon married Chicago native Stephanie Ortiz in a small wedding in Atlanta, GA.
Prior to joining the CNN team, Lemon served as a coanchor for NBC5 News' 5 p.m. newscast in Chica...
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Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966 in Louisiana) is an American journalist currently anchoring the primetime weekend version of CNN Newsroom. CNN Newsroom is based at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Lemon joined CNN in September 2006. In September 2009, it was reported that Lemon married Chicago native Stephanie Ortiz in a small wedding in Atlanta, GA.
Prior to joining the CNN team, Lemon served as a coanchor for NBC5 News' 5 p.m. newscast in Chicago. He joined the station in August 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 station 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...
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