2010 Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

Award season at CityClub continues! As part of the 36th Annual Edward R. Murrow Symposium, Washington State University, The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at WSU, and CityClub are thrilled to bring the winners of the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Awards to the Town Hall Stage - Deborah Amos (NPR) and Judy Woodruff (PBS).

So what exactly have Amos and Woodruff done in their lifetimes? Well, quite a bit - just their brief bios below back in quite a bit of achievement. Join us to welcome them to our stage and ask your own questions!


Deborah Amos covers Iraq for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She has returned to work with NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline  and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline.

Prior to her work with ABC News, Amos spent 16 years with NPR, where she was most recently the London Bureau Chief. Previously she was based in Amman, Jordan, as an NPR foreign correspondent. Amos won several awards, including an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a Breakthru Award, and widespread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. She spent 1991-92 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and is the author of Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World (Simon and Schuster, 1992).

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Amos joined NPR in 1977, where she was first a director and then a producer for Weekend All Things Considered until 1979, after which she worked on documentaries until 1985. In 1982, she received the Prix Italia, the Ohio State Award, and a duPont-Columbia Award for "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown;" and in 1984 she received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Refugees."

Amos began her career after receiving a degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida at Gainesville.


Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS.

For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, "Inside Politics." Woodruff also played a central role in the network's political coverage and other major news stories.

At PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." From 1984-1990, she also anchored PBS' award-winning weekly documentary series, "Frontline with Judy Woodruff."

In 2007, Woodruff completed an extensive project on the views of young Americans called "Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard." Two hour-long documentaries aired on PBS in January and September, 2007, along with a series of reports on “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," NPR, Yahoo, and in USA Today.

In addition, she anchors a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, "Conversations with Judy Woodruff." Through fall 2006, Judy was a visiting professor at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching a weekly seminar course on media and politics. In the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism.

At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC's Today Show chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, "This is Judy Woodruff at the White House," published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.

Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.  

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