WATERVILLE — Watergate reporter Bob Woodward will be honored by a Maine college for courage in journalism.

Woodward is to receive Colby College’s 2012 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award on Nov. 11. Now associate editor of the Washington Post, Woodward will give a speech following convocation at the private, central Maine college.

Woodward was hired by the Washington Post in 1971 as a reporter, and the following year he and Carl Bernstein did most of the reporting that exposed crimes related to the Richard Nixon re-election campaign’s involvement in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel in Washington.

The Lovejoy Award has been given annually since 1952. It honors the memory of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Colby’s valedictorian in 1826 and an abolitionist newspaper publisher who was killed in Alton, Ill., in 1837.