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Judy Carline Woodruffis an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022.
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Judy Carline Woodruffis an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.
After graduating from Duke University in 1968, Woodruff entered local television news in Atlanta. She was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a position she held for six years. She joined PBS in 1982, where she continued White House reports for the PBS NewsHour, formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in addition to presenting another program. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView together with Bernard Shaw, until he left CNN. Woodruff left CNN in 2005, and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006. In 2013, she and Gwen Ifill were its named official anchors, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Woodruff and Ifill shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill’s death in 2016. Woodruff succeeded Ifill as the program’s sole main presenter. In May 2022, Woodruff announced that she would step down as the NewsHour’s anchor at year’s end, and her final day as anchor was on December 30, 2022.
8 Quotes by Judy Woodruff
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There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There’s a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.
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I’ve never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
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It’s always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There’s no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
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Politics is in my blood. I’d love to be involved in 2008, maybe even ’06.
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Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
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We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.
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If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
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Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.
Judy WoodruffAmerican broadcast journalist