Thursday, June 21, 2012

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill A Throwback to Earlier Generations

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill A Throwback to Earlier Generations: It’s another busy day in the life of Gwen Ifill.

Back-to-back meetings about topics that may be covered on one of her television news programs. Reading. Reading. Reading. She reads some five news aggregation sites on the Internet and “dips” into as many newspapers each day. She’s making and receiving phone calls about news developments around the nation and world. She’s tweeting and blogging and giving interviews on the telephone to the local all-news radio station.

It’s all part of the routine for Ifill, a reporter-anchor Monday through Wednesday for “The News Hour,” the daily in-depth news reporting program on PBS, and managing editor and moderator of “Washington Week,” the widely-respected and watched weekend news and analysis program, also on PBS.