Judy Woodruff
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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'' anchor at year's end, and her final day as anchor was on December 30, 2022. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2023]
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