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Matt Lauer

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Matt Lauer Fast Facts:

In 1979 left Ohio University four credits short of graduation; some 18 years later, was awarded his undergraduate degree and delivered the school's commencement address.
Began his broadcast journalism career at WOWK-TV, in Huntington, WV, as a news producer.
After working at numerous TV stations throughout the 1980s and '90s, was hired as a news anchor for NBC's Today; in 1997, succeeded Bryant Gumbel as its coanchor.
Has won two Daytime Emmy Awards.
Underwent surgery to repair a separated shoulder after he fell off his bike while trying to avoid a run-in with a deer on Long Island in 2009.