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| Gwen Ifill, Award-Winning Political Reporter and Author, Dies at 61 | |
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| Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died on Monday in Washington. She was 61. | Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died on Monday in Washington. She was 61. |
| Her death, at a hospice facility, was announced by Sara Just, executive producer of “PBS NewsHour.” The cause was cancer, PBS said. | Her death, at a hospice facility, was announced by Sara Just, executive producer of “PBS NewsHour.” The cause was cancer, PBS said. |
| Ms. Ifill was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and the co-anchor and co-managing editor, with Judy Woodruff, of PBS NewsHour, the culmination of a career that began in 1981 at The Baltimore Evening Sun. Both she and Ms. Woodruff moderated a Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in February. | Ms. Ifill was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and the co-anchor and co-managing editor, with Judy Woodruff, of PBS NewsHour, the culmination of a career that began in 1981 at The Baltimore Evening Sun. Both she and Ms. Woodruff moderated a Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in February. |
| Ms. Ifill later reported for The Washington Post and The Times, covering Congress, presidential campaigns and national political conventions. | Ms. Ifill later reported for The Washington Post and The Times, covering Congress, presidential campaigns and national political conventions. |
| She is also the author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” which was published on inauguration day in 2009. | She is also the author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” which was published on inauguration day in 2009. |
| A full obituary will appear soon. | A full obituary will appear soon. |