Gwen Ifill
| Gwen Ifill | |
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Ifill on PBS NewsHour at the Republican National Convention, August 2012
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| Born |
Gwendolyn L. Ifill September 29, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 14, 2016 (aged 61) Washington, D.C. |
| Cause of death | Breast cancer |
| Education | Simmons College |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) |
The New York Times PBS NewsHour The Washington Post Washington Week |
Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill (/ˈaɪfəl/ EYE-fəl; September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016) was an American Peabody Award-winning journalist, television newscaster, and author. In 1999, she became the first African American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program with Washington Week in Review. She was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and co-managing editor, with Judy Woodruff, of PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. Ifill was a political analyst and moderated the 2004 and 2008 American vice-presidential debates. She authored the best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Ifill was born in the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica in New York City, the fifth of six children of African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister (Oliver) Urcille Ifill, Sr., a Panamanian of Barbadian descent who emigrated from Panama, and Eleanor Ifill, who was from Barbados. Her father's ministry required the family to live in several cities in New England and on the Eastern Seaboard during her youth, where he pastored AME churches. As a child, she lived in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts church parsonages and in federally-subsidized housing in Buffalo and New York City. She graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Simmons College, a women's college in Boston, Massachusetts.
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