Closing Night Keynote: One-on-One with Bob Woodward

Description

The best-selling author and legendary Washington Post associate editor on the revelations in “Rage,” how he got Donald Trump to talk and talk, how his approach to reporting has changed over nearly fifty years of covering presidents and what he thinks of journalism today.

This session was available to ticket holders of the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival to watch live and was not available on demand. 

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Speakers

Bob Woodward

Author and Associate Editor at The Washington Post

Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post where he has worked for 49 years and reported on every American president from Nixon to Trump. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes: first for the Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein and second 20 years later as the lead Post reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Most recently, Woodward is the author of “Rage,” his twentieth book, published in 2020.

Moderator

Evan Smith

CEO of The Texas Tribune

Smith is the CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune. Previously, he spent nearly 18 years at Texas Monthly, including eight years as editor and a year as president and editor-in-chief. Smith also hosts “Overheard with Evan Smith,” airing on PBS stations nationally.