Judy Woodruff
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Judy Woodruff PRESENTER Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is managing editor and co-anchor of “The PBS NewsHour.” She has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. For 12 years, Woodruff was anchor of the CNN weekday political program “Inside Politics” and was a senior correspondent covering politics and other major news stories. At PBS from 1983-93, she was the chief Washington correspondent for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.” From 1984-90, she also anchored PBS’ award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” She returned to PBS in 2007 as a senior correspondent for NewsHour. Through fall 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and in the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. From 2005 to 2013, she co-anchored “Conversations with Judy Woodruff” at Bloomberg Television. At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982, and for a year she was NBC’s “Today Show” chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, published in 1982. Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum and the Urban Institute. She also serves on The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the board of the National Museum of American History. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita. Woodruff received the Cine Lifetime Achievement award, a Duke Distinguished Alumni award, the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcast Journalism/Television, and the University of Southern California Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, among others. Judy Woodruff Managing Editor and Co-Anchor “The PBS NewsHour”.