Speaking Across Political Differences Today in America
with Judy Woodruff
Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
8:00 p.m.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Zoellner Arts Center, Baker Hall
Lehigh University
This is a free and non-ticketed event.
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The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is an endowed lecture series
of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University established in 1997 by Jeffrey L. Kenner '65.
About Judy Woodruff
Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. She has covered politics and other news for more than four decades at NBC, CNN, and PBS.
At PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984 to 1990, she also anchored PBS’s award-winning documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” Moving to CNN in 1993, she served as anchor and senior correspondent for 12 years; among other duties, she anchored the weekday program “Inside Politics.” She returned to the NewsHour in 2007, and in 2013, she and the late Gwen Ifill were named the first two women to co-anchor a national news broadcast. After Ifill’s death, Woodruff was named sole anchor.
She is the recent recipient of the Radcliffe Medal, the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism, the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University. She received the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Television from Washington State University, the Gaylord Prize for Excellence in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Oklahoma, and the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media from the University of South Dakota.
Biographical information via PBS.org.