biography
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Woodward, Bob
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popular name of Robert Upshur Woodward
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Geneva, Illinois, USA. A reporter for the Washington Post (1971–8), he became metropolitan editor and assistant managing editor (from 1981), and was best known for unmasking, with Carl Bernstein, the Watergate scandal and cover-up. Their coverage of the investigative story of the century won almost every major journalistic prize, including a 1973 public service Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper. He also wrote the controversial ‘insider’ books, such as The Brethren (1979, with Scott Armstrong), Wired (1984), and The Commanders (1991). |
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