Gwen Ifill on 9/11

Journalist Gwen Ifill talks about her experiences on September 11, both personally and as a journalist, and she details PBS’s reaction to the tragedy:

“Two things happened at PBS. One is we knew that people were desperate for information. So the NewsHour and Washington Week and Frontline were on 24/7. But we also knew that for children there needed to be a place to go where they weren't horrified. And so PBS kept its regularly scheduled children's programming up all day… So we had kind of a dual role during all of that and I think we rose to the occasion. Like everybody did.”

Watch Gwen Ifill's full interview where she talks about her journey from The Baltimore Evening Sun to PBS NewsHour.

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