Journalist/author Gwen Ifill on "Conversations from St. Norbert College" television show

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From St. Norbert College, August 27, 2010
by Mike Counter, mike.counter@snc.edu, (920) 403-3089

Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week with Gwen Ifilland senior correspondent of the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,will be the guest on the September "Conversations from St. Norbert College" television show hosted by Michael Marsden. They will discuss thecontemporary state of politics.

The September show is a rerun of Augusts' due to time needed for show changes. In October look for a new set and new show host, Kevin Quinn.

Upon graduation from Simmons College in Boston, Ifill went to work at the Boston Herald-American where she discovered her passion for journalism, covering desegregation busing in the 1970's. Later she worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun, The Washington Post and The New York Times. After those assignments she switched to broadcast journalism and began working as chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, along with her former boss, the late Tim Russert. Her first book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," was published in 2009 and was a best seller.

Ifill also moderated the Vice Presidential debates during the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2008.
"Conversations from St. Norbert College" is broadcast every Friday in September, beginning September 3 at 6:30 p.m. New shows appear the first Friday of each month. The series airs on TWCT Time Warner Cable Television Channel 4 in Green Bay, Howard/Suamico, and Seymour; Channel 4 in the Fox Cities, Channel 2 in Neenah/Menasha, and on NET cable Channel 46 in Pulaski.
The show also airs on St. Norbert College Channel 5 in De Pere, Ashwaubenon and Bellevue Sundays at 10 a.m., Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

The show can also be seen on Wisconsin on Demand (WIoD), time Warner Cable's local video on demand channel 411. It is all local, all the time and available free to Time Warner Cable's digital customers in 70 communities in northeast Wisconsin. "Conversations from St. Norbert College" is also airing in Milwaukee, Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids and Upper Michigan.

For more information or to watch it online, visit the website, http://www.snc.edu/communications/conversations.