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Robert Upshur Woodward born March 26, is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in and now holds the honorific title of associate editor though the Post no longer employs him. While a reporter for The Washington Post in , Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein , and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.

The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts. Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate.

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He has written 21 books on American politics and current affairs, 14 of which have topped best-seller lists. Woodward , a lawyer who later became chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. After being discharged as a lieutenant in August , Woodward was admitted to Harvard Law School but elected not to attend. Instead, he applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post while taking graduate courses in Shakespeare and international relations at George Washington University.

Harry M. Rosenfeld , the Post 's metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel , a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D. Woodward and Carl Bernstein were both assigned to report on the June 17, , burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.

Their work, under editor Ben Bradlee , became known for being the first to report on a number of political "dirty tricks" used by the Nixon re-election committee during his campaign for re-election. Their book about the scandal, All the President's Men , became a No. The film , starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, transformed the reporters into celebrities and inspired a wave of interest in investigative journalism.

The book and movie also led to the enduring mystery of the identity of Woodward's secret Watergate informant known as Deep Throat , a reference to the title of a popular pornographic movie at the time.