Tom Llamas is an Emmy Award-winning American broadcast journalist. He was born July 2, 1979, in Miami, Florida, United States, to Cuban immigrant parents who fled Cuba during the Castro regime. He attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami and later enrolled at Loyola University New Orleans, graduating in 2001 with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism, drama, and speech. 

Llama’s interest in journalism began at an early age, having interned at WSCV in Hialeah, Florida, as a teenager. After college, he began working with NBC-owned stations and later joined NBC News’ national reporting teams before moving to ABC News. At ABC, he served as the chief national affairs correspondent and weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 2014 to 2021. 

In 2021, he returned to NBC News as senior national correspondent and became anchor of the NBC News NOW program Top Story with Tom Llamas. In March 2025, NBC announced that Llamas would succeed Lester Holt as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, officially taking over the broadcast on June 2, 2025. The appointment made him the first Latino anchor of a weekday U.S. broadcast evening newscast.