2008 Presidential Debate Moderators

DE PERE St. Norbert College announced on Thursday that Gwen Ifill, journalist, author and moderator of PBS Washington Week in Review, will be the Commencement speaker on May 16 when she also will receive an honorary degree.  

The NY Times' Elizabeth Jensen and WaPo's Howie Kurtz both write about the major changes for PBS' Jim Lehrer and "The NewsHour," which are some of the most significant since Robert MacNeil retired in 1995. While he will remain executive editor, Lehrer, whose name is no longer in the title, will now be joined by co-anchors Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown. Additionally, the digital and television staffs have merged into a single...  

Veteran American journalist with strong Barbadian ties, Gwen Ifill, returned to the island on Saturday to sign her bestselling book “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” for local fans. Ifill, whose local roots became know to ...  

Gwen Ifill, Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week on PBS, said some innocent things about Oval Office decoration that Jon interpreted as Henry Kissinger leaving droppings (or other bodily fluids) on the floor. Clip after the jump. www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Gwen Ifill [The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]  

• Gwen Ifill, moderator of PBS' Washington Week in Review, will receive an honorary degree and will give the commencement address to the 2010 graduating class of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, (from which yours truly is an alum). New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.  

True/Slant | TampaBay.com Sara Libby says "it would certainly be nice if ABC would at least feign serious consideration of a candidate like Gwen Ifill, instead of simply snatching up the first of the usual suspects to be anointed by the cool-kid insiders." || Eric Deggans: "Ifill would be a perfect addition."  

ABC News - Found 3 hours agoThe roundtable weighs in on Sarah Palin's future in the GOP. Sarah Palin - Gwen Ifill - United States - Government - Alaska Palin's Special Message to 'OTR' - FOXNews.com Army to allow media to Palin book event - MSNBC Explore All Huffington Post...  

The roundtable members on Sunday's This Week derided or dismissed Sarah Palin, with David Brooks, the putative conservative columnist for the New York Times, declaring “she's a joke” and insisting “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host” -- leaving it to PBS's Gwen Ifill, of all people, to come to her defense as a fellow woman. Left-winger David Corn yearned for how she will damage Republicans while the...  

Retired News Anchor Tom Brokaw says, "We meet people all the time who say, 'Thank you,' and we say, 'No. It should be the other way.'" Inside the expansion are three new venues - The Solomon Theater, The Stage Canteen, and John Besh's The American ...  

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation," New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and Jerry Tarde, editor in chief of Golf Digest, will join the National Press Club in roasting and toasting Thomas Friedman ...  

Yeah, Joe Lieberman is a wanker . But consider the forum given to him yesterday to keep on lying about healthcare reform. If Schieffer had bothered to challenge Lieberman on the blizzard of misinformation he spewed out in those few minutes, he would ...  

Many years ago, Tom Brokaw wrote a book about "The Greatest Generation." I am a product of that generation. I am 83 years old, I have served in two wars (World War II and Korea, briefly). I have been in three services (Navy, Marines - flew with the ...  

National Institutes of HealthBethesda, Maryland 11:03 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Francis, thank you for the extraordinary introduction. I want to echo what... JIM LEHRER: Now, economic stimulus part two, the new debate here ...  

Appearing on Jan. 23, 2010 will be David Brooks, who is best known as NY Times Op-Ed columnist and weekly political commentator on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer . He will be followed on Feb. 13, 2010 by Bob and Lee Woodruff. ABC Newsman Woodruff and his ...  

SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN: The government going into the health insurance business, I think it’s such a mistake that I would use the power I have as— as a single Senator to stop a final vote, because— BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But wouldn’t ...