LOU DOBBS
Anchor, CNN

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Lou Dobbs is Executive Vice President of CNN, a member of CNN's Executive Committee and Co-Director of Program Development for CNN. He is responsible for CNN Financial News, the division that produces business news programs and updates for CNN, CNN International, Headline News, The CNN Airport Network, CNN Radio as well as CNNfn.com.

Dobbs is the executive in charge of the New York-based financial network CNNfn, the first network to launch on television and the Internet, and anchors Business Unusual. Dobbs also anchors CNN's award-winning Moneyline with Lou Dobbs, television's first nightly business newscast, as well as Moneyweek and Managing with Lou Dobbs.

Dobbs is responsible for developing CNN Financial News into an award-winning leader in television business journalism. The division produces 25 programs and more than 200 updates each week that account for approximately 15 percent of the programming for CNN and CNN International, all the programs for CNNfn and the content for CNNfn.com.

Dobbs joined CNN at its inception in 1980 as Chief Economics Correspondent and anchor of Moneyline. In 1981, Dobbs produced and anchored CNN's first special report, a 90-minute program on the federal budget. In 1984, he was appointed Vice President and Managing Editor of CNN Financial News. Dobbs 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. His other honors include CableACE, Front Page, Janus and Emmy awards. Reporting live from southern Iraq in March of 1991, Dobbs broke the story of Saddam Hussein's release of Kuwaitis and journalists held hostage. Dobbs was named Senior Vice President of CNN in 1992. In May 1993, Dobbs was selected as 1993 Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Committee. Dobbs was named Executive Vice President of CNN in May of 1995 and was responsible for the launch of CNNfn in December 1995.

Prior to joining CNN, Dobbs was a local news anchor and reporter. He began his broadcast journalism career as a police and fire reporter for KBLU-AM in Yuma, AZ. Dobbs holds a degree in economics from Harvard University and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi, the Overseas Press Club, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association, the American Economic Association and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He is also the only broadcast journalist on the Loeb Award judges committee.