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WASHINGTON: For the first time in two decades, a woman journalist will moderate one of the three US presidential debates scheduled in October this year, the commission on presidential debates said.
Candy Crowley, the chief political correspondent of CNN and anchor of its state of the union programme will moderate the presidential debate on Oct 16 at Hofstra University, Hempstead in New York, the announcement said. Incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney will appear for three face to face 90-minute debates in Oct ahead of the Nov presidential elections.
The other two debates on Oct 3 and Oct 22 will be respectively moderated by Jim Lehrer of the PBS News Hour and Bob Schieffer of the CBS News. Martha Raddatz from the ABC News will moderate the only vice-presidential debate on Oct 11 at Centre College, Danville in Kentucky. "The new formats chosen for this year's debates are designed to focus big time blocks on major domestic and foreign topics," said Frank Fahrenkopf & Michael McCurry, co-chairmen of commission on presidential debates.
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