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Judy Woodruff is back on TV

jal41

jal41

I saw Judy Woodruff doing some interviews on "The NewsHour with Jim Leher" on PBS the past few days.

I am glad to see her back on TV. I am sure that her former colleagues at CNN would rather have her back on their network instead.

Didn't she leave to take a teaching job at one of the Washington area colleges? Does anyone know why she has come back to TV? I am assuming this is a part-time thing while she is teaching.
 
jal41 said:
Didn't she leave to take a teaching job at one of the Washington area colleges? Does anyone know why she has come back to TV? I am assuming this is a part-time thing while she is teaching.
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Teaching pays you with prestige. Television pays you with $$$. ;D
 
Some former broadcasters have accepted positions with colleges and universities and parlayed the change into highly successful and even well-paying ventures. Others have quickly learned that the halls of ivy aren't the utopian existence they appear to be from a distance.

Some broadcast faculty are master teachers and quite often themselves one-time and sometimes continuing highly successful practitioners in the business. Still others have little or absolutely no broadcast experience yet somehow two or three decades ago managed to get jobs as broadcast faculty and have continued to hide there ever since. It's those type people who strenuously object to the presence of seasoned professionals in their midst and they do everything possible to discourage the "inrerlopers" from continuing their stay.

Not sure if any such machinations figured into Judy Woodruff's situation in the academic arena. Certainly hope not, since any school true to its mission would do well to have the likes of Judy Woodruff on its faculty.
 
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