Woodward, Bob (1943– )

US journalist. He is best known for unmasking, with Carl Bernstein, the Watergate scandal and cover-up. Born in Geneva, Illinois, he was a Washington Post reporter 1971–78, and metropolitan editor, and assistant managing editor from 1981. Woodward and Bernstein's coverage of the Watergate scandal, the investigative story of the century, won almost every major journalistic prize including a 1973 public-service Pulitzer Prize for the paper. Woodward wrote the controversial ‘insider’ books such as The Brethren (with Scott Armstrong, 1979), Wired (book), and The Commanders (1991). Other books include Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate 1974–1999 (1999) and Bush at War (2002).