Remembering Gwen Ifill

The Newseum looks back at the life and career of Gwen Ifill, one of the most prominent journalists in the country, with a panel featuring her friends and colleagues.

Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’s “Washington Week,” co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour” and author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” died Nov. 14, 2016, in Washington, D.C., at age 61.

Panelists:

• Kevin Merida, senior vice president at ESPN, editor-in-chief of “The Undefeated” and former managing editor of The Washington Post

• Sonya Ross, race and ethnicity editor, Associated Press

• Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent, The Washington Post

• Pete Williams, justice correspondent, NBC News

Recorded Nov. 20, 2016, in the Newseum’s Knight TV Studio

Inside Media programs are made possible with generous support from Kate Headline in honor of her husband Bill Headline, CNN Washington bureau chief from 1983 to 1996.