Background
Lemon was born in 1966 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Lemon was born in 1966 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He was educated at Baker High School, a public high school in the small city of Baker. He majored in broadcast journalism at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Louisiana State University.
He is based in New York and currently hosts Cable News Network Tonight with Don Lemon. While in college, Lemon worked as a news assistant at WNYW in New York City. In his early career, Lemon reported as a weekend anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, and WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Anchor and investigative reporter for KTVI Saint Louis.
And anchor for WBRC Birmingham, Alabama. Lemon reported for National Broadcasting Company News" New York City operations, including working as a correspondent for Today and National Broadcasting Company Nightly News and an anchor on Weekend Today and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company. In 2003, he began at National Broadcasting Company O&O station WMAQ-television (5 in Chicago), and was a reporter as well as local news co-anchor.
Lemon joined Cable News Network in September 2006. Lemon has been outspoken in his work at Cable News Network, criticizing the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly.
He has also voiced strong opinions on ways that the African-American community can improve themselves, which has caused some controversy. area sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic in Africa.
Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago. He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the District of Columbia area sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic in Africa. Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African-Americans by Ebony magazine in 2009. Lemon received a DART award as one of the journalists for 2014 from the Columbia Journalism Review.
