Episode 107: Judy Woodruff

Judy Woodruff got her start in the news business at a time when you didn’t see many women on the air.  Her first job was getting coffee for her bosses at a local TV station in Atlanta. That was nearly 50 years ago. Then she got to know Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer from Plains, before anyone had ever heard of him and she’s covered Presidents and crises ever since. Woodruff also spent the last decade as an anchor on the PBS NewsHour. No happy talk, no screaming and yelling. She’s even been parodied on Saturday Night Live. We talk about how she’s handled tragedy in her life and we laugh about the good times, too.