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Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and managing editor for The PBS
NEWSHOUR with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff.
The best-selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, she also moderated the Vice
Presidential debates during the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2008.
Ifill has covered seven Presidential campaigns, and during the 2008 campaign season, won the George Foster Peabody
Award after bringing Washington Week to live audiences around the country as part of a 10-city tour.
Ifill joined both Washington Week and The NewsHour in 1999, interviewing newsmakers and reporting on issues ranging
from foreign affairs to politics. Before joining PBS, she spent five years at NBC News as chief congressional and political
correspondent. 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.
A native of New York City and a graduate of Simmons College in Boston, Ifill has received more than twenty honorary
doctorates. She has also been honored for her work by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard's
Joan Shorenstein Center, The National Association of Black Journalists, Ohio University and was included in Ebony
magazine's list of 150 Most Influential African Americans.
She also serves on the board of the News Literacy Project, on the advisory board of the Committee to Protect Journalists
and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.