Judy Woodruff: podcast appearances and interviews

Judy Carline Woodruff, born on November 20, 1946, is an American broadcast journalist with a career spanning multiple decades since she began working in local, network, cable, and public television news in 1970. She graduated from Duke University in 1968 and initially entered the field of local television news in Atlanta. In 1976, she became the White House correspondent for NBC News, a role she held for six years. Woodruff joined PBS in 1982, where she continued her White House reporting for the NewsHour, then known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and also presented other programs. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView alongside Bernard Shaw until his departure from CNN. In 2005, she left CNN and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006. She was named one of the official anchors of the program in 2013 alongside Gwen Ifill, succeeding Jim Lehrer. Following Ifill's death in 2016, Woodruff succeeded her as the sole main presenter. She served as the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour until the end of 2022, having covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. Woodruff has conducted interviews with several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates. She announced her departure as anchor in May 2022, with her final day on December 30, 2022.