Don Lemon anchors the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom each weekday. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.Lemon joined CNN after serving as a co-anchor for the 5 p.m. newscast for NBC5 News 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 worked as an anchor on Weekend Today and on MSNBC. While at NBC, Lemon covered the explosion of Space Shuttle Columbia, SARS in Canada and numerous other stories of national and global importance.In addition to NBC5 and NBC News, Lemon has served as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter for WCAU-TV, an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, a general assignment and investigative reporter for KTVI-TV in St. Louis and a reporter for WBRC-TV in Birmingham. He began his career at WNYW in New York City as a news assistant while still in college.Lemon has won an Edward R. Murrow award for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C. sniper. He won an Emmy for a special report on real estate in Chicagoland and various other awards for his reporting on the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, he won three more local Emmys for his reporting in Africa and a business feature about Craigslist, an online community.He earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College. He has also attended Louisiana State University.
Don Lemon's first vote http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/politics...
After he cast a ballot for the first time, CNN's Don Lemon says he wrote a letter to his presidential choice.
Don get's a letter from the president
