Gwen Ifill (born September 29, 1955) is an American journalist. She is the managing editor and moderator for Washington Week (PBS) and a senior correspondant for The NewsHour (PBS). She is also a political pundit, appearing on various news shows.
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* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Career
* 3 Author
* 4 References
* 5 External links
[edit] Early life and education
Gwen Ifill was born on September 29, 1955 in New York.[1] She is the fifth child of O. Urcille Ifill, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, a Panamanian of Barbadian descent who emigrated from Panama and Eleanor who was also from Barbados.[2] Because of her father's career as a minister, the family lived in several different cities throughout New England and the Eastern Seaboard as she was growing up.
She graduated with a B.A. in Communications from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977.[3]
[edit] Career
Ifill worked for the Boston Herald(1977-1980), Baltimore Evening Sun (1981-1984), The Washington Post (1984-1991), The New York Times (1991-1994), and NBC.[3] In October 1999, she became moderator of the PBS program Washington Week in Review. She is also senior correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Ifill has appeared on various news shows, including Meet the Press.[4]
On October 5, 2004, she moderated the vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. She also co-hosted with Kaitlyn Adkins Jamestown LIVE!, a History Channel special commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in 2007. On August 5, 2008, it was announced that she would moderate the Vice-Presidential Debate on October 2.[5]
She serves on the board of the Harvard Institute of Politics, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Museum of Television and Radio and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.[6] |
