Prior to joining ABC News, Woodruff was a reporter for KCPM-TV, the NBC
affiliate in Redding, California from 1991 to 1992; for the CBS
affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond, Va., from 1992 to 1994; and for KNXV-TV,
the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Ariz. from 1994 to 1996. He joined ABC
News in 1996, based in the network's Chicago bureau.