Journalist in the Wild - Bob Woodruff

 

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