Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lou Kilzer was named yesterday as the chief editor of the JoongAng Daily. He succeeds A. Lin Neumann.
Kilzer, 57, author of two books about World War II history, has spent most of his journalism career in Denver, Colorado. An honors graduate of Yale University, Kilzer has worked as both a reporter and editor in the United States, concentrating on investigative reporting for more than 30 years.
In addition to the Pulitzers, he has won several other American national awards, including the George Polk Award for National Reporting, Investigative Reporters and Editors Sweepstakes Award and the Society of American Business Newspaper Editors and Writers Award.