Judy Woodruff

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 8 p.m.

George Washington Hall, Dodd Auditorium

Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at television networks CNN, NBC, and PBS. She is senior correspondent for PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and was editor of the show’s 2008 election coverage.

A graduate of Duke University, Woodruff served as senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program Inside Politics. She has played a major role in that network’s political coverage and in its major news stories. Before joining CNN, she was chief Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and was anchor of the award-winning PBS weekly documentary series Frontline with Judy Woodruff. She has served as NBC News White House correspondent, covering both the Carter and Reagan administrations. She is the author of This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, in which she documents her experiences as a political journalist.

In 2007, Woodruff and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions concluded reporting and production of Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard, a project for which Woodruff interviewed American young people about their views. Two hour-long documentaries on the subject aired on many PBS stations. Reports from the project were featured on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and in news accounts on NPR and in USA Today.

Woodruff has served as a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She also was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. She is founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation.