Bob Woodruff
Bob Woodruff was born in Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, United States on August 18th, 1961 and is the Journalist. At the age of 62, Bob Woodruff biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Warren Woodruff (born August 18, 1961) is an American television journalist.
Early life and education
Woodruff was born in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on August 18, 1961, the son of Frances Ann (Dawson) and Robert Norman Woodruff Jr., real estate agents.
In 1979, Woodruff graduated from the private Cranbrook Kingswood Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He obtained a B.A. Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, where he competed lacrosse in 1983, scored 184 points, his second all-time record at Colgate. Woodruff obtained a J.D. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987 and is an alumnus of Theta Chi Fraternity.
Personal life
Woodruff married Lee McConaughy in 1988, and they have four children, Macklin Robert (Mack), Cathryn, and twins Claire and Nora.
Career
Woodruff joined Shearman & Sterling, LLC, in New York City, as a bankruptcy associate after graduating from law school. During the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, while Woodruff was teaching in Beijing, China, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter. He left the courtroom and became a full-time correspondent, first working for several local newspapers.
Woodruff began working for ABC News in 1996. Peter Jennings and Elizabeth Vargas joined him as a co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight in December 2005. Woodruff was critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq in January 2006.
Woodruff and Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously wounded in a blast that occurred from an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Baghdad on January 29, 2006. Woodruff had traveled from Israel to cover the aftermath of the 2006 Palestinian elections, then via Amman to Baghdad, so that he could meet with troops before President George W. Bush's State of the Union address in 2006.
They were embedded with the US 4th Infantry Division and were traveling in an Iraqi MT-LB at the time of the attack. Woodruff and Vogt were standing over a hatch, apparently filming a stand-up. Both guys were wearing body armour and protective helmets at the time. Woodruff suffered shrapnel wounds; Vogt was struck by shrapnel in the head; and he sustained a fractured shoulder. Both men underwent head injury treatment at the US Air Force hospital south of Balad, Camp Anaconda, and were reported to be in stable condition. Woodruff had a portion of his skull removed during surgery to minimize the damage caused by brain swelling, according to Tom Brokaw of Today.
Woodruff and Vogt were evacuated overnight to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany by the US Army on Sunday, January 29. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas of ABC World News Tonight addressed the dangers of reporting in a war zone.
Woodruff spent several weeks at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, after leaving Germany.
Woodruff was held in a medically induced coma for 36 days to aid his recovery, and ABC News has temporarily assigned Good Morning America anchors Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer to alternate duties on the evening newscast as co-anchors with Vargas. Vogt, on the other hand, was reported to be awake, mobile, and recovering.
Woodruff's brother said that the ABC anchor was beginning to walk, recognize friends and relatives, and understand multiple languages as of March 7, 2006. However, he had trouble with expressive aphasia for more than a year after the injury. Woodruff was moved to a medical facility closer to his Westchester County, New York, home on March 16, 2006, a sign of "continued growth in both directions," ABC News President David Westin said in an e-mail to staffers. Woodruff was able to move about, talk to, and joke with his family, according to Westin's email, but "months of further recovery" were still needed.
On April 6, 2006, ABC News published images of Woodruff recovering at home, as well as a letter thanking everyone for their continued support and kindness during his continuing recovery. Woodruff lauded the troops, physicians, and nurses who had saved his life. Lee, a reporter at Family Fun Magazine, appeared on Good Morning America on December 29, 2006, to plan family activities in honor of the New Year. Anchor Kate Snow questioned Lee about her husband's health during the show. Bob was doing well and was currently filming a television show about his adventures, according to Lee. She also revealed that she had been back to Iraq since the incident occurred to visit the soldiers with whom he was traveling at the time of his injury.
In the Nielsen Media Research rankings, ABC's World News Tonight ranked second, despite losing some ground to NBC's then-first-place Nightly News, anchored by Brian Williams until his dismissal. Since Woodruff's injury, Bob Schieffer of CBS Evening News also closed the gap with ABC. Vargas resigned from WNT on May 23, 2006, citing her doctors' suggestion to reduce her hours due to her forthcoming maternity leave and her desire to spend more time with her new baby. Gibson was later called sole anchor of the show, beginning in May 29, 2006.
Woodruff appeared on Good Morning America, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, and The Oprah Winfrey Show in advance of a documentary that aired on ABC later this evening. Despite having made strides in his recovery, Woodruff had trouble recalling terms and phrases, such as the name of the Vietnam War and the word "injury." "To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports" explored the consequences of traumatic brain injury and highlighted the challenges faced by brain injured veterans seeking treatment, an issue that had first appeared in Discover magazine several weeks ago and was elaborated on by Washington Post reporters in the essay "Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18."
Woodruff returned to ABC World News with Charles Gibson on the following day, February 28, the first in a series of follow-up reports focusing on the challenges that wounded American soldiers are facing during their care and recovery, particularly at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was due to start reporting for Nightline "at regular intervals" starting on March 7.
On the Planet Green television channel, Woodruff began hosting a new weekly ABC News-produced newscast, Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff. Woodruff's focusing on Environment, Environmental Policy, Environmental Policy, Presidential Debate, and world events, as well as how climate change influences religious and cultural beliefs and concerns.
Woodruff appeared on ESPN and ABC Sports as a reporter and host for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, often alongside ESPN Brazil senior writer Rubens Pozzi.
In 2020, he and his son Mack founded Rogue Trip, a National Geographic show. On Disney+, the show premiered.