Journalism students from UConn met with Judy Woodruff of PBS NewsHour and asked questions about her career as a highly respected journalist during the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government’s Walter Cronkite Freedom of Information Award ceremony at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford.
“I want to thank you, the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, Connecticut Public, for the work you do, day in and day out, to strengthen and celebrate the values of open information and records, of honesty, of transparency, of sunshine, and of accountability. Our democracy depends on it, the world depends on it. We are stronger because we air our differences in public. May we never take our First Amendment freedoms for granted.”
–Judy Woodruff, managing editor and anchor of PBS NewsHour,
Woodruff became the seventh person to receive the prestigious award on April 7. The Walter Cronkite Award is named in honor of its first recipient, and other past awardees include journalist Bob Woodward, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, and the late Jim Lehrer, who had also occupied the NewsHour anchor chair.
