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Keynote Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS's “Washington Week,” co-anchor for the "PBS NewsHour" and author of the best-selling book: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and co-anchor for the “PBS NewsHour”. She is also frequently asked to moderate debates in national elections, most recently the Vice Presidential debate during the 2004 election.
Ifill joined both Washington Week and the NewsHour in 1999, interviewing newsmakers and reporting on issues ranging from foreign affairs to politics.
Before coming to PBS, she spent five years at NBC News as chief congressional and political correspondent, and still appears as an occasional roundtable panelist on Meet The Press.
Ifill joined NBC News from The New York Times where she covered the White House and politics. She also covered national and local affairs for The Washington Post, Baltimore Evening Sun, and Boston Herald American. She is the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
“I always knew I wanted to be a journalist, and my first love was newspapers,” Ifill said. “But public broadcasting provides the best of both worlds – combining the depth of news papering with the immediate impact of broadcast television.”
She has received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, and is the recipient of several broadcasting excellence awards, including honors from the National Press Foundation, Ebony Magazine, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and American Women in Radio and Television.
A native of New York City and a graduate of Simmons College in Boston, Ifill serves on the board of the Harvard University Institute of Politics, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Newseum and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and co-anchor for the “PBS NewsHour”. She is also frequently asked to moderate debates in national elections, most recently the Vice Presidential debate during the 2004 election.
Ifill joined both Washington Week and the NewsHour in 1999, interviewing newsmakers and reporting on issues ranging from foreign affairs to politics.
Before coming to PBS, she spent five years at NBC News as chief congressional and political correspondent, and still appears as an occasional roundtable panelist on Meet The Press.
Ifill joined NBC News from The New York Times where she covered the White House and politics. She also covered national and local affairs for The Washington Post, Baltimore Evening Sun, and Boston Herald American. She is the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
“I always knew I wanted to be a journalist, and my first love was newspapers,” Ifill said. “But public broadcasting provides the best of both worlds – combining the depth of news papering with the immediate impact of broadcast television.”
She has received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, and is the recipient of several broadcasting excellence awards, including honors from the National Press Foundation, Ebony Magazine, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and American Women in Radio and Television.
A native of New York City and a graduate of Simmons College in Boston, Ifill serves on the board of the Harvard University Institute of Politics, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Newseum and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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