{"id":110743,"date":"2016-11-14T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110743"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:19:53","slug":"journalist-gwen-ifill-passes-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110743","title":{"rendered":"Journalist, Gwen Ifill passes, 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110744\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IfillGwen2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ifillgwen2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IfillGwen2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IfillGwen2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IfillGwen2-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IfillGwen2.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 PBS says Gwen <span style=\"color: red;\">Ifill<\/span>, the veteran journalist and co-anchor of the network&#8217;s &#8220;NewsHour&#8221; with Judy Woodruff, died today of cancer. She was 61.<\/p>\n<p>A former newspaper reporter, <span style=\"color: red;\">Ifill<\/span> switched to television and worked for NBC News and PBS. She moderated two vice presidential debates.<\/p>\n<p>She took a leave from her nightly show for health reasons earlier this year, never making public her illness. A week ago, she went out on leave again, taking her away from election night coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Just, PBS &#8220;NewsHour&#8221; executive producer, called <span style=\"color: red;\">Ifill<\/span> &#8220;a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity in an industry going through seismic change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 PBS says Gwen Ifill, the veteran journalist and co-anchor of the network&#8217;s &#8220;NewsHour&#8221; with Judy Woodruff, died today of cancer. She was 61. A former newspaper reporter, Ifill switched to television and worked for NBC News and PBS. She moderated two vice presidential debates. She took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110746,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110743\/revisions\/110746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}