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Washington Post political reporter Robert Costa is the new moderator of PBS’ Washington Week, the weekly news analysis series. Costa takes the seat left vacant when Gwen Ifill passed away last November. Costa called the new job "an honor and privilege,” then paid tribute to Ifill. "It's also deeply humbling to follow…

Refresh for latest…PBS newscaster Gwen Ifill’s death this morning, at age 61, is top trending worldwide on Twitter, as comments pour in from both the media industry and the political word she covered. "She not only informed today's citizens, but she also inspired tomorrow's journalists," @POTUS says of Gwen Ifill. pi…

Gwen Ifill, a veteran TV journalist, political analyst and longtime host of PBS NewsHour and moderator and managing editor of Washington Week, which also aired on PBS, died today in Washington, D.C., after a battle with cancer. She was 61. Ifill also moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice presidential debates and authored…

You can't get away from politics at today's PBS panels at TCA. The pubcaster this afternoon connected reporters and critics with the PBS NewsHour co-anchor/managing editor team of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff via Skype from Philadelphia, where they are covering the final day of the Democratic National Convention. An…

MacNeil-Lehrer Prods., owner and co-producer  of  PBS NewsHour, is in talks with Washington D.C. public TV station WETA about taking it over. The station already is the co-producing partner of the program currently owned by the production company founded by its original anchors, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil. These…

Judy Woodruff, half of PBS' newly named NewsHour co-host team came to TCA to dispel the notion that her pairing with Gwen Ifill was historic. "We're not the first," Woodruff said via Skype. "Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were the first female co-anchors." Ifill, appearing via satellite said, "here, right now, it's news. We…

PBS this morning named Gwin Ifill and Judy Woodruff — the stars of its most recent presidential election coverage —  co-anchors and managing editors of Newshour. It marks the first time two women are co-anchoring the evening newscast on a major US television network, PBS chief Paula Kerger noted at Summer TV Press Tour…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. It came as no surprise that panelists at the TCA presentation to discuss PBS' 2012 election coverage were asked whether the Colorado movie theater shooting would affect the debate in the upcoming presidential campaign and election. Panelists included Gwen Ifill of W…