Keynote Speaker: Judy Woodruff

Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. Most recently, she signedonas a senior correspondent and2008 political editor for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
In early 2007, Woodruff concluded initial reporting and production, with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, on “Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard,” a project that interviewed young Americans and reported on their views. It included two hour-long PBS documentaries in January and September 2007, a series of reports on “The NewsHour,” reports on NPR and in USA Today, and partnerships with Yahoo! and Film Your Issue.
In addition, she anchors “Conversations with Judy Woodruff,” a monthly program for Bloomberg Television. Through fall 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching a weekly seminar on media and politics. In the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism.

She is author of This is Judy Woodruff at the White House.
Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She serves on the boards of the Freedom Forum, Global Rights: Partners for Justice and the National Museum of American History. She is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. She is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.