WATCH LIVE: 2020 International Press Freedom Awards – 7:00 CST

(NBC News) — Lester Holt hosts the Committee to Project Journalists 2020 International Press Freedom Awards, honoring journalists from Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria and Russia along with lawyer and human rights advocate Amal Clooney who will receive the 2020 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, presented by actor Meryl Streep.