Adaora Udoji comes to The Takeaway from Court TV, where she serves as an anchor and trial correspondent. Previously, as a correspondent with ABC News and CNN, Udoji covered some of the most critical domestic and international stories of the past 15 years, including the last three presidential elections, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Udoji was part of the CNN team that earned a Peabody Award for its heralded coverage of Hurricane Katrina and was among those who contributed to the Tsunami Disaster coverage in South Asia that won the network a duPont-Columbia University Award.
Additionally, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences cited her for her coverage of the War in Afghanistan and she is a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow.
At ABC, Udoji served as a foreign correspondent based in London, filing reports from Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, and Central Asia. She also contributed to an ABC prime-time documentary about death row in 1997, which was recognized with a Cine Eagle award.
Udoji's writing has appeared on CNN.com and Essence.com. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science and sociology from the University of Michigan and her law degree from UCLA School of Law. She lives in New York City with her husband, Ron Allen, who is a correspondent for NBC News.
Adaora Udoji appears in the following:
Election Day 2008: Hour Two
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
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Eduardo de Oliveira, reporter for the New England Ethnic Newswire at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the Nashua Telegraph, as well as ...
Q&A with Yale's Heather Gerken on the voting process and election reform
Friday, October 24, 2008
Series: Lives changed, three years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Question of the day: When gas reaches $5 a gallon I will no longer ___________
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday's question of the day: What are the contradictions in your life?
Friday, May 16, 2008
Question of the day: Myanmar's military is blocking aid. What should the United States do?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Question of the day: My day is not complete until I've _____ed online
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Facebook profiles, Wikipedia entries and millions of blogs about politics and technology and cats. We know you make them, but which Web sites command your time and contributions? Share your story by clicking "get in the mix", by emailing mytake@thetakeaway.org, or by calling our SpinVox line at 1-877-8-MY-TAKE. Then, ...
What would you tax to fix your state's budget crisis?
Friday, May 09, 2008
My name is Adaora Udoji and I’m a news junkie
Monday, April 28, 2008
America’s Exit Poll
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
And you can take part in "America's Exit Poll" here! Tell John and Adaora the story ...