Lou Carlozo | Source | Editor in Chief at Qwoted

An award-winning journalist with more than 30 years experience, Lou Carlozo served as managing editor at Government CIO, where he led an overhaul of web page content for the Veterans Administration. Just prior, he fully revamped and energized editorial at the Bank Administration Institute (BAI), the nation’s largest banking non-profit. He assembled from scratch a team of one dozen contributors formerly from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other prominent outlets. As readership jumped 30 percent, Lou also created, hosted and engineered the BAI Banking Strategies podcast, piloting it to 120,000 listens and winning the company’s Bravo Award for his efforts. His current financial services podcast, “Bankadelic,” passed 1000 listens after just several months on the air.

In six years at U.S. News & World Report, Lou covered investment, writing about prominent public companies (Apple, Netflix, Berkshire Hathaway, more) and issues that included financial literacy and behavioral finance. Previously, he contributed to Reuters Money and Reuters Small Business, while serving as a columnist at the personal finance site Money Under 30. His multimedia credits include BBC Radio commentator (“Up All Night”) and appearances on several true-crime documentaries for the Discovery Channel’s Investigation Discovery network.

In 16 years at the Chicago Tribune, Lou was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his contributions to the “Killing Our Children” series and creator of two weekly syndicated columns, “On The Small Screen” (DVD reviews) and “The Recession Diaries” (personal finance). He was also one of the first reporters to cover the deadly Chicago Heat Wave of 1995; a fictionalized version of Lou (“Stu”) appeared in the Pegasus Players stage production “Heatwave.”

As a managing editor at AOL, he created the “Money College” blog site, powered by more than a dozen college-age freelancers he recruited and trained. “Money College” routinely garnered six-digit page views and Lou commissioned a five-part series on the exploding cost of tuitions, one of the first in the 2000s to take an in-depth look at the issue.