Perspective: Judy Woodruff
Courtesy: PBS NewsHour.
Judy Woodruff is the Anchor and Managing Editor of the PBS NewsHour. She was NBC's White House correspondent from 1977 - 1982, served as a correspondent and anchor for CNN in the 1980s and 1990s before she moved to PBS.1 Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, serves on the boards of trustees of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum, the Duke Endowment and the Urban Institute. She is also the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Southern California Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism among many others.
““It’s essential to us in the media to have any credibility that we’re right, that we have our information right. That night we all had egg on our face big time.””
In 2017, April asked Woodruff to share a story from her career that she will always remember and speaks to an important element of journalism. Woodruff tells the story what happened on election night in 2000.
““That was probably the most momentous story I have covered as a political reporter. It was a night that reminded me how absolutely critical it is that we get our information right.””
Woodruff finishes the story next and describes the scale of the error that night.