NEW YORK — The next anchor of NBC’s late-afternoon national newscast has been revealed, and the man chosen to succeed Lester Holt is presently a senior national correspondent who also anchors a show focused on the “Top Story.”

Tom Llamas will take over as anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” after Holt steps down this summer, the network announced Wednesday.

Llamas will handle the newscast, with East Coast and West Coast editions, in addition to anchoring “Top Story” each weeknight, NBC News EVP/Programming Janelle Rodriguez said in an internal message shared by NBCNews.com on Wednesday afternoon.

Llamas began his career with an internship at a NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises property. He would then serve as an overnight production assistant before taking local reporting jobs at WTVJ-6 in Miami and, later, at WNBC-TV in New York.

For a short period, Llamas was at ABC, where he served as Chief National Affairs Correspondent and as the anchor of “World News Tonight Weekend.”