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A Short Biography of Gwendolyn Ifill

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Gwendolyn Ifill

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29 Sep 1955

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Journalist, television newscaster and author                          
Selected works:

The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama - 2009.                          
Mother Eleanor Ifill
Father Oliver Urcille Ifill, Sr.                          
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Simmons College in Boston Massachusetts in 1977.

Baltimore Evening Sun - 1981-1984 
The Washington Post - 1984-1991 
The New York Times - 1991-1994 and NBC.

In October 1999 she became moderator of the PBS program Washington Week in Review and is also senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.

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.                          
While at Simmons College, Ifill interned for the Boston Herald-American and was hired after graduation by editors deeply embarrassed by an incident during her internship in which a co-worker left a note for her that read "Nigger go home."