News & Events 2004-2005
CNN’s Lou Dobbs a Featured Skeptics Speaker
Lou Dobbs, anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, presented a Society of Skeptics program, “The Economy in Crisis...Outsourcing Issues,” on Tuesday, October 12, in the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts. Dobbs also anchors a nationally syndicated financial news radio report, The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and is a columnist for Money magazine and U.S. News and World Report.
According to CNN’s Web site, in 1999 Dobbs founded Space.com, the first multimedia company dedicated to space and space-related content. He returned to CNN in 2001 to his current position. In February 2003, his personal interest in space exploration helped the network to cover the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The day after the Columbia was lost, Dobbs traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., where he reported on the latest information on the evolving story. Later in the year, Dobbs anchored nightly and reported the latest news on Operation Iraqi Freedom, interviewing multiple analysts and military experts to provide context during the conflict.
The Web site added that Dobbs became anchor of Lou Dobbs Moneyline the year he joined CNN and was instrumental in making Moneyline the most prestigious business news program in history. During his tenure at the network, he helped develop CNN financial news to the award-winning leader in television business journalism, and oversaw the launch of CNNfn and CNNfn.com in December 1995. He managed the network as president of CNNfn and executive vice president of CNN until June 1999 when he left the network.
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.”
Dobbs, father of Heather ’06 and Hillary ’06, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.
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