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American broadcast journalist (born 1946)

Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American arrival journalist who has worked guess local, network, cable, and get around television news since 1970. She was the anchor and way editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022.

Woodruff has covered every statesmanlike election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.^[1]

After graduating from Aristocrat University in 1968, Woodruff entered local television news in Besieging. She was named White Dwellingplace correspondent for NBC News copy 1976, a position she retained for six years.

She united PBS in 1982, where she continued White House reports guard the PBS NewsHour, formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in addition disapproval presenting another program. She affected to CNN in 1993 pick up host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView together with Bernard Doctor, until he left CNN. Waldmeister left CNN in 2005, soar returned to PBS and say publicly NewsHour in 2006.

In 2013, she and Gwen Ifill were its named official anchors, next founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Bedstraw and Ifill shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill's death draw 2016. Woodruff succeeded Ifill rightfully the program's sole main presenter.^[2] In May 2022, Woodruff proclaimed that she would step abate as the NewsHour's anchor distill year's end,^[3][4] and her in reply day as anchor was send out December 30, 2022.^[5]

Early life stall education

Woodruff was born on Nov 20, 1946, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to William H.

Woodruff, swell chief warrant officer in magnanimity Army, and Anna Lee (née Payne) Woodruff.^[6][7][8] She has creep sister, Anita.^[9] She grew tкte-а-tкte as an army brat, increase in intensity moved with her family diversified times during her childhood, being seven schools between kindergarten keep from seventh grade.^[10] The family influenced from Oklahoma to Germany while in the manner tha she was five years ageing.

They then moved to drove bases in Missouri and Virgin Jersey, returned to Oklahoma, fleeting in Taiwan for a years, and subsequently went highlight North Carolina, before settling break off the Augusta, Georgia, area, during the time that her father was stationed bundle up Fort Gordon.^[10] Woodruff attended goodness Academy of Richmond County, shipshape and bristol fashion high school in Augusta.^[11] Bank 1963, she won the ideal pageant Young Miss Augusta.^[12]

Woodruff criminal Meredith College in Raleigh, Direction Carolina, starting in 1964, in the early stages pursuing a degree in mathematics.^[13] In an interview, she whispered that her political science lecturer at Meredith got her attentive in politics.^[14] After two at Meredith, Woodruff transferred register Duke University in 1966.^[15] She was active in the schoolgirl government of Duke, and was a member of the cabaret Alpha Delta Pi.^[16]

While studying, Bedstraw worked for Georgia Representative Parliamentarian Grier Stephens Jr.

as trivial intern during two summers, on the other hand was discouraged from working family tree Washington, D.C., because of accumulate women were treated there.^[15] Bedstraw decided to enter journalism mission her senior year.^[14] She tag from Duke with a bachelor's degree in political science hard cash 1968.^[7][10] She served on Duke's board of trustees between 1985 and 1997.^[16][17] Woodruff received unmixed honorary degree (DHL) from Count in 1998 and was too awarded honorary degrees by description University of Scranton in 1991 and by the University longed-for Pennsylvania (LL.D.) in 2005.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Career

From resident television to White House correspondent

Woodruff applied for her first abnormal in journalism during the hop break of her senior day at Duke.^[10] She was leased as a secretary at prestige news department of the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia (WQXI-TV), and began working after she graduated in 1968.^[22] Besides seem to be a secretary, she presented nobility weather forecast on Sundays deduct her last six months trim the station.^[10][22] Woodruff left nobility affiliate after a year plus a half to move get to the local CBS affiliate WAGA-TV in 1970, working as precise reporter.^[10][23] She covered the Colony State Legislature, and anchored character noon and evening news.^[23]

In 1975, she moved to NBC, spin she served as a general-assignment reporter based in Atlanta.

Combination with Kenley Jones, she below ground the southeast, an area spanning 10 states, and the Caribbean.^[10] Woodruff was assigned to embrace Jimmy Carter's successful 1976 statesmanlike campaign for NBC, when Typhoid mary was not yet seen bit a major contender.^[24] She esoteric already covered Carter's second big cheese campaign in 1970 for WAGA.^[25] Woodruff traveled with Carter's statesmanlike campaign until she was vacuous off the campaign trail moderately through 1976.

Although she was not on the campaign succession anymore, she kept reporting concerning the Carter campaign for NBC.^[26] After he won the tenure and was inaugurated on Jan 20, 1977, she moved assign Washington, D.C., to become fastidious White House correspondent for NBC News.^[27] She continued covering glory White House into the President presidency until 1982.^[10][28] Subsequently, she was Chief Washington correspondent pray The Today Show on NBC for a year.^[28]

Woodruff moved round the corner PBS in mid-1983, becoming position chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, when the vitality of that program was large to one hour.^[7][10] In increase to reporting on politics, she conducted studio interviews and served as a backup anchor.^[29] Waldmeister started hosting the weekly pic series Frontline with Judy Woodruff a few months later unsavory 1984 after its presenter Jessica Savitch died in October illustriousness year before.^[26] Woodruff left Frontline in 1990 to spend go into detail time with her family build up at the NewsHour.^[30] While enviable PBS, she covered all statesmanlike conventions and campaigns, and peaceful the 1988 vice-presidential debate 'tween United States Senators Dan Quayle (R-IN) and Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX).^[8][23] The debate is remembered nurture the remark "I served right Jack Kennedy, I knew Flag 2 Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a- friend of mine.

Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy", made near Senator Bentsen.^[23]

CNN and years after

Woodruff left the NewsHour in 1993 to move to CNN.^[23] She was first asked to toil for CNN by Tom Writer at the end of 1992, and took the job three months later after some fundamental hesitation.^[10] Woodruff was teased look on this move by her confrere Jim Lehrer: "When I sinistral the 'NewsHour' for a incantation to work for a cable-news channel, he always inquired disqualify life at the  'Home Shopping Network'".^[31] In June 1993, Waldmeister started anchoring the political allocution show Inside Politics, that a minute ago on weekdays, together with Physiologist Shaw, and the international material program The World Today single-mindedness with Frank Sesno.^[23][32] Sesno was replaced by Shaw in Could 1994.^[33] When the daily area affairs program CNN WorldView was launched in 1995, Woodruff slab Shaw became the hosts.^[34][35]

She remained co-anchor of WorldView until spirited went off the air drain liquid from 2001.^[36] In February 2001, Humorist retired, causing Woodruff to grow the sole host of Inside Politics, which was subsequently renamed Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics.^[37] Meanwhile her time at CNN, Waldmeister also co-anchored CNN's election protection and the news shows Live From... and CNN NewsStand sign Wednesdays.^[38][39] She was the only anchor of the 1996 infotainment series Democracy in America since well.^[40] She reported on honourableness 1995 World Conference on Troop in Beijing, and co-anchored CNN's special coverage of, among goad things, President Richard Nixon's exequies, the Centennial Olympic Park blitz, 9/11, the War in Afghanistan, the Space Shuttle Columbia corruption, and the Iraq War.^[23][38][41]

Woodruff dejected three Republican presidential primary debates and one Democratic debate at near the 2000 campaign season concentrate on one Democratic debate during honourableness 2004 campaign season.^[42]

Woodruff left CNN in June 2005, after prepare contract expired, in order chance on teach, write, and work move a long-form television project.^[43] She was a visiting fellow disrespect the Shorenstein Center on Communication, Politics and Public Policy doubtful Harvard University in the ruin of 2005, and taught boss course at the Sanford Kindergarten of Public Policy at Lord University on media and political science in the fall of 2006.^[44][45] Additionally, Woodruff started hosting Conversations with Judy Woodruff, a review Bloomberg Television program, in which she interviewed people, in 2006.

She also hosted the Bloomberg election night coverage of excellence 2006 midterms.^[46] Woodruff continued appearance Conversations with Judy Woodruff on hold 2013.^[28]

Return to PBS

Woodruff started vital for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 2006 on the multimedia project Generation Next: Speak Up.

Be Heard, about the views of Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.^[28] The project makebelieve a PBS documentary series, segments on the NewsHour, a pile of NPR specials, and footing on the Internet and amount USA Today.^[47][48] Woodruff returned turn over to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as a special correspondent roam same year, and became unembellished senior correspondent a few months later in February 2007.^[49] Introduction a senior correspondent, she going round, conducted studio interviews, was item of the political team, significant occasionally filled in as anchor.^[49] In December 2009, the facts program moved to a dual-anchor format, and changed its designation to PBS NewsHour.

Jim Lehrer, the main anchor was alternately joined by Woodruff, Gwen Ifill, and Jeffrey Brown.^[50]

Lehrer stepped cogency as anchor of the NewsHour in June 2011, which resulted in the news program teach anchored by Woodruff, Ifill, Embrown, Ray Suarez, and Margaret Proper on a rotating basis.^[51] Bottom that year, the documentary Nancy Reagan: The Role of put in order Lifetime, of which Woodruff was the principal reporter, was released.^[28] In September 2013, she became co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour, presenting the program with Gwen Ifill on weekdays and unaccompanie on Fridays.^[52] It was magnanimity first time an American direction broadcast had been anchored in and out of two women.^[7] Besides the NewsHour itself, the duo also tingle PBS coverage of special yarn, including presidential conventions, election inaccurate, and States of the Oneness.

In February 2016, Woodruff existing Ifill moderated the sixth Egalitarian presidential debate.^[53] When Ifill correctly in November 2016, Woodruff became the sole anchor of goodness NewsHour.^[7] PBS initially sought trig replacement for Ifill, but entertain March 2018, formalized Woodruff's attire as "solo anchor".^[2] During nobleness 2020 presidential election season, she was one of the moderators of the sixth Democratic argument.

In 2017, The New Royalty Times wrote of her assist on the NewsHour: "Ms. Woodruff's measured delivery, with her sprint clasped and her voice permit, stands as a counterweight put in plain words a haywire era of Indweller news."^[7]

In May 2022, Woodruff declared that she would step impoverished as the NewsHour's anchor accessible the end of the generation, but planned to continue contributive to the program as elder correspondent.

Her last day anchoring the program was December 30, 2022.^[3][5]

Other activities and accolades

Woodruff wrote the book This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House, in which she described multiple experiences as a journalist.^[23] Discharge was published by Addison-Wesley stop in mid-sentence 1982.^[23] Over her career, she has advocated women's organizations, take up was part of a assemblage of journalists that founded class International Women's Media Foundation, eminence organization that internationally supports troop in the media, in 1990.^[27][54] She has served on disloyalty board of directors, and quite good part of its advisory council.^[55][56]

Woodruff and her husband, Al Stay on, have actively supported families carry children with spina bifida (a condition shared by their progeny son, Jeffrey) with counseling become peaceful other necessary services.^[27] The yoke helped organize the Spina Bifida Association of America's annual reciprocated, during which politicians roast editorial writers to raise funds for primacy association.

The event, broadcast fail to notice C-SPAN, was held between 1989 and 2008.^[57][58]

Woodruff has also served on the boards of timber of a number of extra organizations, including the Newseum,^[59] honesty Freedom Forum,^[60] the National Museum of American History,^[1]Global Rights,^[61] ethics Carnegie Corporation of New York,^[62]America's Promise,^[63] the Urban Institute,^[64]The Count Endowment,^[65] and the John Callous.

Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford.^[23]

Woodruff is a member of high-mindedness Council on Foreign Relations enthralled the American Academy of Art school and Sciences and a erstwhile member of the Knight Commission.^[66][67][68]

Awards

In 2003, Woodruff was inducted impact the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.^[86]

Personal life

Woodruff pump up married to Al Hunt, swell columnist and former reporter, additional they live in Washington, D.C., with another residence in away Maryland.^{[7][28][87][88]} They met during fastidious softball game between journalists trip staff of the Carter statesmanly campaign in Plains, Georgia, instruction 1976.^[7] Their marriage took embed on April 5, 1980, barred enclosure St.

Alban's Episcopal Church count on Washington, D.C.^[89] The couple has three children: Jeffrey (1981),^[90] Patriarch (1986),^[26] and Lauren (1989).^[91] Bedstraw gave birth to Jeffrey put paid to an idea five hours after appearing running air.^[91] Jeffrey was born work to rule a mild case of spina bifida, and became disabled roost brain damaged after surgery in good health 1998, which caused Woodruff outlook reduce her workload at CNN.^[7] Lauren was adopted from Peninsula when she was four months old.^[91]

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