Louis Carl "Lou" Dobbs (born September 24, 1945) is a television journalist, business writer and news anchor. He is the host of the program "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the Fox Business Network. Before Fox, Dobbs was an anchor, managing editor, an executive vice president at CNN. Dobbs is an award-winning journalist. He has won an Emmy, a Peabody Award and a Luminary Award (from the Business Journalism Review).