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AP Photos Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff named co-anchors and managing editors of PBS NewsHour

Fresh off the wire from PBS: "Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, it was announced that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will be co-anchors and managing editors for the PBS NewsHour. Ifill and Woodruff will anchor the broadcast together Monday through Thursday each week. On Fridays, Woodruff will anchor solo as Ifill hosts Washington Week that evening. This will mark the first time a network broadcast has had a female co-anchor team."

PBS also announced that Hari Sreenivasan will serve as Senior Correspondent for the NewsHour and named three new correspondents: Ray Suarez as Chief National Correspondent; Margaret Warner as Chief Foreign Correspondent, and Jeffrey Brown as Chief Correspondent for Arts, Culture, and Society.

See the full press release here.