Gwen Ifill NNDB Entry
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Gwen Ifill: NNDB Entry
Born: 29-Sep-1955
Birthplace: Queens, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Methodist
Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour
"How can I say this so I don't turn off every man in Washington?" she asks. "I don't know why I'm not married. I just know I will be, so I don't sweat it."
Season ticketholder to the WNBA Washington Mystics (as of 2000).
Father: O. Urcille Ifill, Sr. (d. 1991, Methodist preacher)
Mother: Eleanor (d. 1994, cancer)
Sister: Maria Ifill Philip
Brother: Roberto Ifill
University: BA Communications, Simmons College, Boston, MA (1977)
The New York Times White House correspondent 1991-94
The Washington Post 1984-91
The Baltimore Evening Sun 1981-84
The Boston Herald American Food columnist 1977-80
Barbados Ancestry Maternal side
Panamanian Ancestry Paternal side
TELEVISION
Today Correspondent
NBC Chief Congressional and political correspondent, joined NBC 26-Sep-1994
Washington Week in Review Became moderator, Oct-1999
Lehrer News Hour
Original source: NNDB