Robert
Warren "Bob" Woodruff is an American Journalist. He is known for
becoming co-anchor of ABC News World Tonight and for traveling around the world
to bring back news from North Korea to Afghanistan and Iraq. Before becoming a
journalist, he was an attorney, and soon realized that it was not his calling.
He was then hired as a translator for CBS News during the Tiananmen Square
uprising. On January 29, 2006, Woodruff was reporting on Iraqi security forces
and U.S. when the vehicle he was in was struck by a roadside bomb seriously
injuring him. A year and one month later, he made a comeback and returned to
ABC News. One of his quotes says "You've got to at some
point just stop dreaming of being exactly the way that you were, a lot of
moments in your life — or things that you're doing in your life — will be
better than they were before." All his dedication and hard work made an impact and his overseas reporting of the September 11 attack was part
of ABC News' coverage that was recognized with the Alfred I. DuPont Award and
as well as the George Foster Peabody Award. Those are the two highest honors in
broadcast journalism one can get. For all the investigation he had done in
traumatic brain injuries, he was also honored with another George Foster
Peabody Award. And from the 4 Emmy awards he has received; his most current
award was due to the reports on the horrific treatment of the Rohingya ethnic
group.
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https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/bob-woodruff-official-biography/story?id=127761
https://www.npr.org/2016/01/29/464755390/abcs-bob-woodruff-the-unexpected-life
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