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My Take
Don Lemon strikes me as a journalist who earned his platform the unglamorous way. Out of Baton Rouge, he anchored weekend news in Alabama and Pennsylvania and reported for NBC long before CNN made him a household name, and that 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award tells you the craft came first. I respect people who build a foundation in the field before the spotlight finds them. Opinion journalism is a bruising line of work, drawing fire from every direction, but the ones with a real spine don't fold under criticism. Whatever one makes of his views, that local-news grit is the kind of foundation I quietly root for.
Overview
Don Renaldo Lemon-Clark (born March 1, 1966) is an American television journalist best known for being a host on CNN from 2014 until 2023. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News. Lemon is a recipient of an Edward R.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Don Lemon
- Name (Japanese)
- ドン・レモン
- Reading
- どん・れもん
- Born
- March 1, 1966 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Horse
- Origin
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- opinion journalist / television journalist / television presenter / presenter / journalist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Baker High School
- University
- Brooklyn College
Awards & achievements
- Chicago / Midwest Emmy Awards
- 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Xhttps://x.com/donlemon
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Lemon
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.