caption age children birth_place status credits birth_date gender spouse birthname image article_title education name occupation
woodward in 2002 bob woodward.jpg taliesin -lrb- born 1996 -rrb- -lrb- b. nov. 10 , 1976 -rrb- diana geneva , illinois , u.s. married '' the washington post '' 26 march 1943 male elsa walsh robert upshur woodward bob woodward.jpg bob woodward
 yale university , ba , 1965 bob woodward journalist
bob woodward

robert upshur `` bob '' woodward -lrb- born march 26 , 1943 -rrb- is an american investigative journalist and non-fiction author .
he has worked for `` the washington post '' since 1971 as a reporter , and is now an associate editor of the `` post '' .
while a young reporter for `` the washington post '' in 1972 , woodward was teamed up with carl bernstein ; the two did much of the original news reporting on the watergate scandal .
these scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of president richard nixon .
gene roberts , the former executive editor of `` the philadelphia inquirer '' and former managing editor of `` the new york times '' , has called the work of woodward and bernstein `` maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time '' .
woodward continued to work for `` the washington post '' after his reporting on watergate .
he has since written 16 books on american politics , 12 of which have been bestsellers .
