February 2009
CNN’s Special Inauguration Coverage with Don Lemon
Atlanta, GA--- CNN’s Don Lemon will anchor live from the nation’s capital Saturday, January 17, 2009 from 7-9 p.m., PST and 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., EST. On Sunday, January 18, 2009 Don Lemon will anchor live from Washington, D.C. at 6 p.m., EST/3 p.m., PST and 10 p.m., EST /7 p.m., PST. On Monday January 19, 2009, Soledad O’Brien, Roland Martin, and Don Lemon will anchor MLK to Today, A CNN special. On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 following the swearing in of our 44th President Barack Obama, Don Lemon will interview Christine, Martin, III, and Bernice King, the first family of the Civil Rights Movement.
Don Lemon anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. 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.
Don Lemon has been nominated for an award by the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYBJ) for Daughters of Legacy, a documentary by Executive Producer Annika Young and featuring the daughters of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Sidney Poitier, Muhammad Ali, and Johnnie Cochran.
He earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College. He has also attended Louisiana State University.