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journalist Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other
news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. Most
recently, she signed on as a senior correspondent for "The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent
for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, "Inside
Politics." Woodruff also played a central role in the
network's political coverage and other major news stories.
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 2007, Woodruff completed an extensive project on the
views of young Americans called "Generation Next: Speak
Up. Be Heard." Two hour-long documentaries aired on
many PBS stations in January and September, 2007, along
with a series of reports on the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,"
NPR and in USA Today.
In addition, she anchors a monthly program for Bloomberg
Television, "Conversations with Judy Woodruff."
Through fall 2006, Judy was a visiting professor at Duke
University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching
a weekly seminar course on media and politics. In the fall
of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary
issues in journalism.
At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent
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.
Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's
Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting
and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide.
She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum,
the Newseum, and Global Rights: Partners for Justice. She
also serves as a member of 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.
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