Judy Woodruff
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Judy Woodruff
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Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Judy Woodruff—one of the world's most prominent female journalists—brings groundbreaking reporting experience, sharing insights on the Presidential Administration, Congress and the changing political landscape.
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Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the Senior Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour after serving for 11 years as its Anchor and Managing Editor. She has covered politics and other news for over four decades at CNN, NBC, and PBS. In 2023 and 2024, she is undertaking a reporting project, “America at a Crossroads,” to better understand the country’s political divide.
For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior Correspondent for CNN, where her duties included anchoring the weekday program, Inside Politics. At PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984-1990, she also anchored PBS’ award-winning weekly documentary series, Frontline with Judy Woodruff. In 2011, Woodruff was the principal reporter for the PBS documentary Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. And in 2007, she completed an extensive project for PBS, and other news outlets on the views of young Americans called Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard. From 2006-2013, she anchored a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, Conversations with Judy Woodruff. Woodruff was a White House correspondent at NBC News from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that, she served as NBC’s Today show chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.
The recipient of numerous awards, including the Peabody Journalistic Integrity Award, the Poynter Medal, an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement, and the Radcliffe Medal, she and the late Gwen Ifill were together awarded Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism after Woodruff and Ifill were named co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour in 2013, marking the first time an American national news broadcast would be co-anchored by two women.
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Inside the 2024 Presidential Election
Judy Woodruff’s presentation draws from her current project “America at a Crossroads.” Having traveled the US for the past year, Judy explores the country’s political divide . How Americans’ views of the divide, the issues, and “the other side. Each speech is customized to the event, discussing events and issues the audience cares about, in an insightful and engaging way. With years of experience as a broadcast political journalist, she gives her take on reporting and interacting with the Washington political scene.
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