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Gwen Ifill

John King Causes Controversy By Calling Suspect 'Dark-Skinned Male'

Posted 04.17.2013 | Media

CNN's John King caused some controversy on Wednesday when he said that a potential suspect in the Boston bombings was a "dark-skinned male." King w...

Gwen, Greta Clash On 'This Week'

Posted 01.07.2013 | Media

PBS' Gwen Ifill clashed with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren during a discussion about gun control on ABC's Sunday public affairs program, "This Week...

Michael Calderone

Why Do Journalists Still Flock To Conventions?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 09.05.2012 | Media

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On the morning of Aug. 30, Sheelah Kolhatkar, a features editor and national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, made her way...

Janell Ross

Univision Creates Presidential Candidate Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 08.25.2012 | Latino Voices

Univision, the network behind the nation’s most-watched Spanish-language news programs, announced late Thursday that it will host a pair of Facebook...

Chorus Of Complaints About Debates Grows Louder

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 10.18.2012 | Media

Increasingly, it seems like the only people happy with the upcoming presidential debate moderators are the four lucky people who have been chosen. Fri...

Election Coverage Gets Historic First For Women

Posted 08.20.2012 | Media

In less than two weeks, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will make history as the first all-female team ever to host coverage of the conventions. TV N...

Crowley Speaks Out On New Post

Posted 08.15.2012 | Media

CNN's Candy Crowley, who was named a presidential debate moderator for the 2012 election, spoke out on being the first woman in 20 years to hold such ...

Which Female Debate Moderator Would You Select?

Posted 08.10.2012 | Media

As the 2012 presidential election approaches convention season, some have been wondering who will moderate the upcoming presidential debates and if th...

Romney's Veep Pick and Foreign Policy

Heath Brown | Posted 10.07.2012 | Politics
Heath Brown

Foreign policy may not determine who wins the election but it will likely animate the upcoming debates, and who Governor Romney chooses will quickly be confronted with articulating to the nation their views on many of the key foreign policy issues.

Christina Wilkie

PBS Host Hit By Conservative Website For Emceeing LGBT Clinic Gala

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.19.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Gwen Ifill, the author and "PBS News Hour" correspondent, is under fire from a conservative media outlet over her decision to serve as e...

'PBS NewsHour' Struggles Through Staff Changes

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 01.07.2012 | Media

It's never good when a news organization loses its political editor just a year before a presidential election. But in the next two weeks, "The PBS Ne...

Denzel Washington: We Are Failing Our Kids

Posted 11.22.2011 | Home

Academy Award-winning film director Ron Howard, basketball star LeBron James, musical artist Ashanti and Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington...

Arianna: There's No Time To Lose In The Fight To Save The Middle Class

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Huff TV

Arianna appeared on PBS' "Newshour" with cohost Gwen Ifill Thursday night to discuss the ongoing "crumbling" of the nation's middle class and the thre...

Sunday Morning TV Gripes

Stephen Kaus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Stephen Kaus

Random thoughts while zipping through the Sunday morning shows, from the tape-delay of the Olympics to the surprising revelation that Peggy Noonan and Hugh Hewitt are hypocrites

Jake Tapper, Terry Moran Guest-Hosting "This Week": Who Should Replace George Stephanopoulos? (POLL)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Jake Tapper and Terry Moran — the two ABC News personalities seen as possible replacements for George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" — will...

As Anchors Change at ABC and MSNBC, Will Executives Ignore Diversity Again?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Eric Deggans

Until you work on these issues, it's hard to appreciate how difficult it is to diversify newsrooms. But it's time for TV outlets to cast their gaze beyond the usual suspects.

Reid, Race, and the Party-Based Double Standard

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard Grenell

It's clear that Democratic elites discuss race one way privately and another way publicly. It's also clear that there is an obscene, party-based double standard when it comes to discussing these issues.

Cast Couture: Politicos Who Persevere In Crutches, Casts, And Slings (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow outside the White House on June 18th, her injury put her in good company: Supreme Court Justic...

Holder: Cheney "Dead Wrong," We'd Never Authorize Torture

The Blog of Legal Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

It might have been a casual luncheon, but that didn't make the questions any less probing. In a wide-ranging dialogue hosted by the NAACP Legal Defens...

The Audacity of Whiteness: Framing Barack Obama

Jill Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Jill Nelson

In journalism, white people who are granted the role of analyzing everyone, including African Americans, who are likely overlooked or spoken for by white expert opinion.

The Nightmare VP Debate Scenario: Biden, Beware! (Update: Nightmare Averted!)

John Neffinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
John Neffinger

What if, midway through, Palin is doing okay, or better than okay? If you're Joe Biden, are you going to just sit there and let her play you to a draw - or beat you? On the biggest stage Biden has ever been on, is he going to let himself get shown up by someone everybody knows is an idiot? Or does Biden get agitated, and start looking for opportunities to attack, to pin Palin down, to put her in her place? If Biden stops playing it safe, all bets are off. He might be brilliant, but things might also go horribly wrong.

Axelrod On Blagojevich Scandal: 'We Were Not Involved'

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

David Axelrod said at tonight's Harvard Institute of Politics conference that Obama's team wasn't involved in talks with Rod Blagojevich about Obama's...

This Era of Black Women and HIV/AIDS

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Irene Monroe

Seventeen percent of the U.S. teen population is African American. In 2004, 70 percent of all teens testing HIV-positive were black.

"Meet The Press" Successor To Be Named Soon, Short List Includes Gregory, Ifill, Mitchell, Todd

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NBC executives are closing in on a decision about who will take over "Meet the Press," its venerable Sunday morning political talk show, with the anno...

Who Will Be Russert's Permanent Replacement On "Meet The Press"?

New York Times | JACQUES STEINBERG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

It is probably the second-most-pressing question circulating in the salons of Washington's media elite: Who will be the permanent host, or hosts, of t...