PBS’s Judy Woodruff: I Worry About the Health of Journalism & Democracy in America

Jill and Victor bring on the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff, to examine the changes we’ve seen in the country while she’s been covering it for us. But despite our nation’s recent division and polarization, we have made it through tougher times, and with a new administration and a slowing of the pandemic, we all have a future that is slowly starting to look brighter by the day. In this conversation, we talk about the state of the news industry, the decline of local news, how to bring back truth and facts in news, Judy’s time in journalism, and advice for young journalists.

Judy Woodruff currently appears as a daily anchor on PBS Newshour. Woodruff began in local journalism in 1968 and quickly rose in the ranks to be White House Correspondent for NBC in 1976 and then for PBS in 1982. She then moved to CNN to host their Inside Politics show and its WorldView news program before returning to PBS in 2006 to co-host its NewsHour with the late Gwen Ifill.

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