Cranbrook Graduate Lands Top ABC News Anchor Job
Cranbrook Schools graduate Bob Woodruff was announced yesterday as the new co-anchor for ABC News’ World News Tonight, replacing the late Peter Jennings. As a class of 1979 graduate, Woodruff made some of his first journalistic impressions as a staff member on the Cranbrook student newspaper, the Crane-Clarion.
Woodruff is the latest Cranbrook Schools graduate to earn recognition in the field of journalism. Other notable Cranbrook alumni in the industry include Michael Kinsley, political columnist and founder of Slate, one of the country’s first on-line magazines; Michael Barone, U.S. News and World Reportsenior writer; Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal columnist; Steve Frank, former CNBC commentator and Wall Street Journal reporter; Tom Bray, Detroit News columnist; Mable Chan, producer for ABC’s Good Morning America and Alan Simpson, former U.S. senator for Wyoming and frequent on-air political pundit.
After graduating from Cranbrook, Woodruff earned his law degree from the University of Michigan. He worked as a practicing attorney before becoming a translator for CBS News in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square uprising and launching his career in journalism. He served as ABC News’ Justice Department correspondent in the 1990s and over the next decade, rose to become one of ABC’s top correspondents. He has covered stories as diverse as the NATO bombings in Belgrade and Kosovo and the vice-presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards in 2004. Woodruff also reported on the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. He earned the Alfred I. Dupont Award and the George Foster Peabody Award, two of the industry’s highest honors, for his work as part of the ABC News team covering the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Starting on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, Woodruff will begin his tenure as ABC World News Tonight co-anchor with Elizabeth Vargas.
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After graduating from Cranbrook, Woodruff earned his law degree from the University of Michigan. He worked as a practicing attorney before becoming a translator for CBS News in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square uprising and launching his career in journalism. He served as ABC News’ Justice Department correspondent in the 1990s and over the next decade, rose to become one of ABC’s top correspondents. He has covered stories as diverse as the NATO bombings in Belgrade and Kosovo and the vice-presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards in 2004. Woodruff also reported on the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. He earned the Alfred I. Dupont Award and the George Foster Peabody Award, two of the industry’s highest honors, for his work as part of the ABC News team covering the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Starting on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, Woodruff will begin his tenure as ABC World News Tonight co-anchor with Elizabeth Vargas.
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