Woodruff was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, leaving to join PBS six years later where she continued White House reports for the PBS NewsHour. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView with Bernard Shaw. She returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006, and seven years later she and Gwen Ifill were named anchors. With Ifill’s passing, Judy was the sole anchor until the end of 2022.
Silver Owls Fall Hoot
Nov 10 2023
WHEN:
Nov 10, 2023 at 6:00pm
WHERE:
Ballroom
CONTACT INFO:
Cecily Scott Martin
MORE INFO:
Social Event
Registration/tickets required
Join the Silver Owls in welcoming new members of their group and honoring incoming Golden and Platinum Owls. Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt will headline the evening, which includes a three-course dinner and entertainment by a New Orleans-style jazz band.
The Hoot is open to all Press Club members and their guests. Tickets are $65, which includes the club's superb three-course dinner and two glasses of wine. The meal is preceded by a cash bar.
Silver Owls are those who have been members of the Press Club for 25 years or longer. Golden Owls are those who have been members 50 years or more. And Platinum Owls have roosted at the Club for 60 years or longer.
If you are a new Silver, Gold or Platinum Owl and you attend the Hoot, you will be introduced and presented with a certificate attesting to your new honored status in the National Press Club.
Woodruff and Hunt, the long-time Washington journalism power couple, will talk about their careers and their lives together while taking questions from the audience.
From the Nixon administration into the Biden presidency, they have been in the mix of everything that has happened in Washington and in national politics. They know where the bodies are buried and how to dig them up.
Hunt wrote for the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau for 35 years beginning in 1969, covering congressional and national politics before rising to bureau chief and executive Washington editor. He hosted the Sunday morning talk show, Political Capital, and was a weekly panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang and Evans, Novak Hunt & Shields. He became Bloomberg News’ Washington editor and anchor on Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt.
The Jefferson Street Strutters are a seven-piece band that specializes in New Orleans-style jazz popular from the 1900s through the 1940s. Band Leader Joel Albert says, “We play happy music. The goal is to leave audiences with hands clapping, toes tapping and smiles on their faces.”