Gwen Ifill: American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator for "Washington Week" (PBS) and a senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS). She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. She is the author of the book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. She has covered six Presidential campaigns. She joined both Washington Week and The NewsHour in 1999, interviewing newsmakers and reporting on issues ranging from foreign affairs to politics. Before coming to PBS, she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a local and national political reporter for The Washington Post. She has received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, and serves on the boards of the Harvard University Institute of Politics and the Committee to Protect Journalists.