Gwen Ifill ✝
American journalist, television newscaster, author
Gwen Ifill was a moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour. She was also the best-selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Before arriving at PBS in 1999, Ifill was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a local and national political reporter for The Washington Post. She also reported for the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Boston Herald American. Ifill reported on a wide range of issues from foreign affairs to U.S. politics and policies interviewing national and international news-makers. She covered six Presidential campaigns and moderated two vice presidential debates—in 2004 the debate between Republican Dick Cheney and Democrat John Edwards and in 2008 the debate between Democratic Senator Joe Biden and Republican Governor Sarah Palin. Her work as a journalist has been honored by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center, Ebony Magazine, and Boston’s Ford Hall Forum.
Ifill has received more than 20 honorary doctorates and served on the boards of the News Literacy Project, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and she is a fellow with the American Academy of Sciences.
Gwen Ifill passed away on November 14, 2016 at the age of 61.
Ifill spoke at The Common Good in 2009: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
