Anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff today announced her intent to step aside from the PBS NewsHour anchor desk on Friday, December 30, 2022, and to begin work on a two-year project to understand better how the American people see their country and whether today’s deep political divisions can be healed. Woodruff’s successor at the NewsHour anchor desk will be named in late 2022.
Woodruff will devote 2023 and 2024 to this national reporting project, Judy Woodruff Presents: America at a Crossroad.
About her decision, Woodruff said, “I have loved anchoring this extraordinary program, initially with my dear friend Gwen Ifill. To follow in the footsteps of Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil has been the honor of a lifetime. Now, I am thrilled to be embarking on this new project to try to understand the most divided time in American politics since I started reporting. I want to listen to the American people themselves, in cities, small towns and rural areas, from one end of the country to the other, to ask them about their hopes and fears, how they see their role as citizens, and to have long conversations with people who’ve given these questions careful thought.”
As a senior correspondent, she will report regularly for this series on the NewsHour with possible primetime specials for PBS.
The PBS NewsHour airs weeknights at 6 pm on Nine PBS, streams live, or on-demand on the PBS Video App.
View the official press release at pbs.org.
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