PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Had A Tremendous Impact

Remembering PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill onstage at a PBS panel in Los Angeles. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Remembering PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill onstage at a PBS panel in Los Angeles. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Had A Tremendous Impact

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

Award-winning journalist Gwen Ifill passed away Monday at the age of 61 after battling cancer. 

She was a political reporter for several newspapers, a book author, and most recently the co-host of the PBS NewsHour. Universally respected by her colleagues and the people she reported on, she’s been called “a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity.” 

Morning Shift talks to Laura Washington, political analyst for the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC 7 Chicago, and Jill Hopkins, co-host of the Morning AMp on our sister station Vocalo, about Gwen Ifill’s extraordinary life and career and the impact she had as a trailblazing African-American woman in journalism.