Bob Woodruff

Robert Warren " Bob" Woodruff ( born August 18, 1961 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) is an American television journalist.

Woodruff graduated in 1979 graduated from the private school Cranbrook Kingswood. The program at Colgate University, he graduated in 1983 as BA from. He then completed the JD program at the University of Michigan. After graduating in 1987, he worked for Shearman & Sterling.

1989 Woodruff taught law in Beijing; during the Tiananmen Square Massacre hired him to CBS News as an interpreter for the camera. Shortly thereafter, he left the legal career and became a full -time correspondent - first for local stations until he joined ABC News in 1996.

In December 2005 he joined the successor of Peter Jennings as co -host of World News Tonight. A month later suffered Woodruff in a bomb explosion in Iraq severe injuries.

For his contribution on war veterans, he received the Peabody Award.