Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC News' World News Tonight in January 2006.
Woodruff also contributes reports to Nightline, and other ABC News broadcasts. Most recently he covered the presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards.
He has also reported extensively on the continuing unrest in Iraq from Baghdad, Najaf, Nassariya and Basra. During the initial invasion Woodruff reported from the front lines as an embedded journalist with the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Before moving to New York in 2002, Woodruff worked out of ABC News' London Bureau. After the September 11th attacks he was among the first Western reporters into Pakistan and was one of ABC's lead foreign correspondents during the war in Afghanistan, reporting from Kabul and Kandahar on the fall of the Taliban.
His overseas reporting of the fallout from September 11th was part of ABC News coverage recognized with the Alfred I. Dupont Award and the George Foster Peabody Award, the two highest honors in broadcast journalism.
Before becoming a journalist, Woodruff was an attorney. But in 1989 while teaching law in Beijing he was hired by CBS News to work as a translator during the Tiananmen Square uprising and a short time later he changed careers.
As ABC's Justice Department correspondent in Washington in the late 1990s, Woodruff covered the office of Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and ATF. In 1999, he reported from Belgrade and Kosovo during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Since then, he has reported extensively on Europe and the Middle East.
Woodruff has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Colgate University.