ABC News’ Bob Woodruff Returns to Iraq

ABC News’ Bob Woodruff is returning to Iraq for the first time since January of 2006 when a roadside bomb there nearly took his life. This morning, in a blog post for ABC News, Mr. Woodruff and my new “brothers and sisters” also injured in the war whose stories I have been reporting since I’ve Read More

Gibson Getting Gig: ABC News Veteran Finally Anchored

As of Memorial Day, Charlie Gibson will finally, officially and for the foreseeable future be the sole anchor of World News Tonight.

On May 23, ABC News president David Westin announced that he was undoing everything he had done this past November when he appointed the youthful duo of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff as Read More

Shaken, ABC News Tries To Recover Despite Assaults

In December, ABC settled at last on a long-term plan for World News Tonight. News-division president David Westin announced that the empty desk left by the death of Peter Jennings would be filled not by a new old-fashioned anchor, but by a pair of youthful, globetrotting talents, Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas.

Now, two months Read More

Woodruff Assault Emphasizes Danger For Crews in Iraq

It would have been a familiar-looking segment, if ABC had been able to air it: brand-new World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff standing in the hatch of a Soviet-made Iraqi personnel carrier, dressed in a flak jacket, motoring through hostile territory.

Instead, as Mr. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt filmed their Jan. 29 stand-up in Read More

Woodruff Assault Emphasizes Danger For Crews in Iraq

It would have been a familiar-looking segment, if ABC had been able to air it: brand-new World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff standing in the hatch of a Soviet-made Iraqi personnel carrier, dressed in a flak jacket, motoring through hostile territory.

Instead, as Mr. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt filmed their Jan. 29 stand-up in Read More