TV News Anchor Gwen Ifill Dies Pastor Dewey Moede 8 years ago Nov 14, 2016 Gwen Ifill, one of the country’s most celebrated African-American journalists, dies at 61 Pioneering television news anchor Gwen Ifill died Monday after a battle with cancer, NBC News has confirmed. She was 61. Ifill, a longtime newscaster at PBS who formerly worked at NBC News and the New York Times, was in hospice when she passed away. Read More Share this:Print