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Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing
editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and
a founding member of the network in 1980, as well as
CNN's financial news division. Additionally, Dobbs anchors
a nationally-syndicated financial news radio report.
He writes a monthly column for Money magazine,
a weekly syndicated column for the Sunday issue of the
New York Daily News, is a contributing editor
for U.S. News and World Report and also manages
and edits his own financial newsletter, the Lou Dobbs
Money Letter.
Dobbs has won nearly every major
award for television journalism. He received the George
Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock
market crash. In 1990, he was given the Luminary Award
by the Business Journalism Review for his "visionary
work, which changed the landscape of business journalism
in the 1980s." In 1999, he received the Horatio Alger
Association Award for Distinguished Americans and Dobbs
was named "Father of the Year" by the National
Father's Day Committee in 1993.
He graduated from Harvard University
with a degree in economics. Dobbs serves on the boards
of the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation,
the Horatio Alger Association, the National Space Foundation
and SPACE Holdings, Inc., in which he owns a minority
stake, as he does in Integrity Bank. He is also a member
of the Planetary Society, the Overseas Press Club, the
American Economic Association and the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences.
June 2003
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