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Age: 81
Profession: Journalist
Other Profession(s): Author
Famous For: Reporting On The Watergate Scandal
Higher Education: Yale University (BA)
About (Profile/Biography):
Robert Upshur Woodward is an investigative reporter from the United States. He began his career with The Washington Post in 1971 as a reporter and is currently an assistant editor. In 1972, when Woodward was a young reporter for The Washington Post, he hooked up with Carl Bernstein, and the two of them produced a large portion of the original news coverage on the Watergate affair. President Richard Nixon eventually resigned as a result of these scandals, which also prompted multiple federal probes. Longtime journalist Gene Roberts referred to the work of Woodward and Bernstein as "perhaps the single greatest reporting effort of all time."
Career:
In 1970: Woodward was accepted to Harvard Law School after being released from service as a lieutenant, but he decided not to enroll.
In 1971: He was hired as a Post reporter after an internship at the Montgomery Sentinel in suburban Washington, D.C.
In 2005: Woodward provided Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald with a two-hour deposition.
In 2008: He was interviewed by Eric Schmidt for the Talks at Google series.
In 2018: Woodward announced that he would be taking an investigative journalism class online.
Achievements and Awards:
In 1973: He won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
In 1995: Woodward was also the recipient of the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement.
In 2001: He was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Unknown Facts:
Woodward kept up his employment at the Post, where he was promoted to associate managing editor the following year.
During the 2001 9/11 attacks in the United States, Woodward led the Post team that won another Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the repercussions.
