Judy Woodruff to Leave PBS NewsHour at Years End

[Action Newsroom 891]

Per Variety and Deadline, Judy Woodruff has announced to staffers that she will depart the anchor desk of the PBS NewsHour at the end of this year (she will anchor coverage of the midterm elections) and transition to special projects and long-form reporting for WETA. Her successors are (confirmed by two internal sources) expected to be correspondents and fill-in anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett; official word might come this fall.

Edited May 13 by Action Newsroom

[T.L. Hughes 489]

7 hours ago, Action Newsroom said:

Per Variety and Deadline, Judy Woodruff has announced to staffers that she will depart the anchor desk of the PBS NewsHour at the end of this year (she will anchor coverage of the midterm elections) and transition to special projects and long-form reporting for WETA. Her successors are (confirmed by two internal sources) expected to be correspondents and fill-in anchors Anna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett; official word might come this fall.

If Bennett is tapped as her (co-)successor, that would be a pretty quick promotion for him, considering he just became anchor of the recently renamed PBS News Weekend when WETA took over responsibility for producing the Saturday and Sunday editions (from WNET) in early April. Nawaz, OTOH, has been acting as backup weeknight anchor for several years (at least since Gwen Ifill’s passing).

Edited May 13 by T.L. Hughes

[iron_lion 484]

This day was coming, had a feeling she was headed for retirement soon.  Sad to see Judy go. At least she'll still be around for select projects.

Edited May 14 by iron_lion