Gwen Ifill (born September 29, 1955) is a journalist for PBS. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has also received 15 honorary degrees. 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. She earlier worked for the "Boston Herald", the "Baltimore Sun", … Wikipedia
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Also in October 1999, Ifill became the new moderator for PBS' acclaimed Washington Week, a weekly roundtable discussion and analysis of current events in the nation's capital. www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/bio_ifill.html